School is now back in session as of the beginning of March and Micah and I find ourselves reconnecting with many of the teachers that we worked with last year. Today was our first class in the community of Colpa Tuapampa, which is about a 4-mile walk outside of town. Earlier in the week we coordinated a few things with the teachers we know from the school and decided to assist them with a class on sex education. We made the trek out to the community this morning in the rain and mud and arrived early to present our program to the director of the school. I wanted to be sure that we didn't step on his toes with the start of the program, so we arrived in plenty to time to go over our ideas with him and ask his formal approval of the project. Our experience in Peru has been that school directors and teachers encourage us to do whatever we want, whenever we want. Today was no exception. We talked about the program with the director for about 3 minutes, and then the conversation drifted to questions he had about the United States, which led to a smorgasbord of conversation topics. One weird hour later, we had covered the following:
- 9/11 - detailed questions about the motivations of the attack and if the towers will be rebuilt (a very common question, so common, in fact, that we were asked the very same thing again about 30 minutes later by a student )
- British colonial history of the United States (including architecture)
- How could there possibly be African Americans in the US if the country is a former British colony? Followed by a brief explanation of slavery and immigration.
- Osama Bin Laden- Where is he?
- Population control in China
- Property laws in the United States
- How much money our parents make
- When will we have children? (We are asked this at least 20 times per week)
- Average height of people in the US
- Earthquakes
- Family violence (including incest)
- Bestiality
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