The Schedule is Demanding

On Wednesday it's yoga!  Thursday it's art class....and Friday it's time for Spanish class!  Oh the grueling schedule at Playa el Coyote.

Teacher Ruth

 Teacher Ruth drives out to the beach from Mulege and like magic, yoga class appears on the beach.  Some days we use the palapa for a wind screen, other days...the sea laps gently near our mats.  This Wednesday Pedro gives yoga a try for the first time!  From ring master to yoga student...quite a transformation!

A first for Pedro...and a first for yoga probably!

Debbi and Steve on the far side!

Class fee is by donation and 10% goes to the local animal rescue group.  We will miss Ruth as she soon returns to California for a few weeks.

If it's Thursday, it's Art Class over at Posada Conception beach.  Lynn, a retired art teacher, brings her passion for using gourds, seagrasses, pine needles, beads, and beach "finds"...and provides weekly classes to create incredible decorative art.  Our second project this year is a gourd container....from start to finish...

Scrub the gourd clean

First to scrub the gourd clean in a bucket of water using a rough scrubber.

Let it dry...then cut it open and clean the inside

Now it's time to use a saw and cut the gourd in half.  Now, clean out the inside by scraping out all the seeds leaving a smooth surface.

Then, dye the outside (I choose blue ink dye).  Now, simply (ha!) weave a collar out of sea grass strands adding a few rounds of colorful raffia in the middle until the collar turns outward!

You are almost done!  Just decorate with available beads!

So much for Thursdays!  But what about Friday?!  Verines en Espanol means Spanish lesson day!
Our teacher, Audreanna, sets up school under a palapa and we gather around our chairs.  From a teacher's point of view...she does a great job...with only a few big Spanish / English dictionaries and a white board.

Proof....learning has no age boundries!?

Nan???!!  Did you do your homework??

 Audreanna was born here and her mother's family grew up on this beach.  She got to two years of college and wanted to be a teacher of English, but she couldn't afford the rest of the schooling.  She's 32 years old and she is making her dream of being a teacher come true in this way.  She charges 50 pesos (about $4.50) for a two hour lesson.  Seems to me an end of season bonus is due here!!

Job #3 for Audreanna....she is my teacher, and also a waitress at two restaurants!

Oh, the demaning schedules we create for ourselves.  But, that's only three days...what about the other four?  I think they are all recess!