Buenas dias de Arequipa!
Our final journey will take me fully occupied, Peru has to offer incredibly much, like land and people ... this is a small excuse why I was not responding for a long time.
About one month ago, since I was in the city school week with my class. I have fond memories of the time, missing the jungle but still do not appeal to me because the mighty mountains and plateaus of Peru at least the same. And the kitchen is definitely challenging. The
Completeness, but I put myself back once more and tell you what the city school week and the last week of school were. For that I have two hours, then it Almuerzo in the Plaza de Armas ... ;-)
Wednesday 14 May 2008
visit to the Mitad del Mundo
Breakfast in the Hostal Cometa is rich by European standards and leaves nothing to be desired. My students that's much too sweet, clear - there are usually at their rice or yucca. Nevertheless, they were brave and the various exotic dishes such as Nutella cost, cold cuts, cereals and honey and chamomile tea. About
clock at 10.00, after two lessons of math and English classes, we went on to Mitad del Mundo, a very interesting museum on the Äquatorn - at the very center of the world. The children were allowed the movement of Quito against amazing - and even helped me to find the right bus.
escape the museum itself, the irony of the class to stand as living examples of the Selva Indians before a Kichwahaus issued for tourists, which would have its own can be. Our guide explained to the children things that they knew from daily life. And she showed them articles from the past, the Kichwa, on the Napo and Arajuno still in use are.
Abdón was very interested - the others were happy, especially to the playful parts of the guide, such as the blowpipe shooting (although it really would not have to come to Quito).
impressed them most, the experiments on the equator. Although I still attempts last year, knew she was fascinated in me anew.
Since there are, for example, a water-filled basin that has a normal Lavaboablauf in the middle. Let the water drain away only about 2 meters north of the equator, there is a vortex that rotates clockwise. In the southern hemisphere it spins in a clockwise direction. And when the pool exactly on the equator is (marked with a red line on the ground), there is no vortex - the water is guided by the gravitational pull straight to the ground. In theory, mine is not new, but to see the phenomenon in practice is to keep something else.
Another experiment is based on the fact that the forces acting on the equator different and we humans are lighter and have less power. The students tried to hold each other's arms in the air to push against the ground. In addition to the equator, this was according to the strength of the student a tough thing. On the equator is easy.
Finally, the children wanted but still a Photo of the monument, make the time, however, was built in the wrong place and now about 200 meters from the equator is.
Cristian was very impatient, and later even aggressive, because lunch was slow in coming. We therefore had almost emergency room in a restaurant - the menu, rice and chicken, said to everyone.
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