Feliz Día Del Madre (Happy Mother's Day)

Mother's Day in Guatemala is always on the 10th of May so this year it fell on a Friday. I spent the morning at one of the schools that I am working with. It seems like most schools here have a special event for mother's day where all of the student's moms are invited and they have a celebration where the kids put on performances, dancing, singing, and reading poems all dedicated to mothers. And of course a Guatenalan gathering of any kind wouldn't be complete without dynamicas (basically interactive ice breakers) and refaccion (snack). In my opinion there were way too many dynamicas and not enough performances by the kids, but all in all it was a really nice event. There was one amusing dynamica where they asked for four volunteers from the audience, two men and two women. It was a race between the two pairs where first the women had to put this cloth on the men to look like a diaper (this was highly embarrassing due to the placement of diapers) then the men sat on the woman's lap while she fed him a bottle (filled with juice).

The man - baby activity