During this first week of arrival, we made contact
with Maria Concepcion better known as Coni. Coni is the local representative of
INAEBA and teaches a small adult literacy group at the health clinic. Coni is
lovely. She has a little bit of a crippled arm, but you can see that she has
worked hard to make herself a strong and successful person.
The adult literacy program is only one the programs
that she runs in the community. She also teaches a class for new mothers, and a
class to help adults receive their middle school certification. Alongside her
house is a small internet pub. It is one of the two in the community and shows
that she values connections to the outside world and the resource of the
internet. It also shows that she has some skill with computers which is rare in
this community.
We sat in her small sitting room that displayed pictures
of her family, and we spoke about the adult literacy program, and how we could
help out. She told us that recently she had dropped her class days from twice a
week to once a week due to scheduling conflicts. We said that we could teach
Wednesday and that she could continue teaching Fridays. Fridays are the only
days that she has available, and it is the only day that we can´t go- we will
be traveling to Guanajuato. Still, I find it wonderful that she is teaching
here as it means that when we leave the students will continue being taught.
So, we will teach Wednesdays and she will teach
Fridays. We start next week at 5:30.
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