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In English: summer camps.

 Tomu and Jade had July & August off from school, and after about one week, we were ready for them to go back to school! 🙂

So we looked into some summer camps to get them out of the house for some time each day.

The first one was on a farm outside of Cuenca. The kids rode horses, went swimming, had an espuma fight (like silly string that you spray from a can, which they typically do at Carnaval here), and generally had fun. A “buseta”, or mini school bus, picked them up & dropped them off each day. I was impressed by their willingness to try new things—off they went to camp for the day, without knowing anyone except each other, with no complaints.

In August we signed them up for an hour a day of music lessons, for two weeks. Jade studied piano, and Tomu studied piano and violin. The buseta driver wasn’t very reliable, so we ended up getting some extra hours for his tardiness. For a price point reference, the music lessons were $5/hour per kid. Riki got a keyboard so the kids can keep playing at home, and we are looking into ongoing piano lessons for Tomu. Jade isn’t interested in continuing with piano lessons. See videos below.

Then, with two weeks left to go before school started, we found a camp at the last minute which they really loved. It was a rock climbing & silks camp for 3 hours a day.  The first week there were 5 kids, and the second week Tomu & Jade were the only students with one teacher. They both loved the silks. Tomu was so excited to show me his “impressive tricks”. The gym shares a glass wall with a Turkish café, so I went a few times to watch them.