Semillas de Mostaza

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from Semillas yet to date. Our latest amusement here has been dealing with a goat that our guard, Andres, seems to like to bring to work with him. (Sir, why do you need to bring your goat to work..) When I taught the adults on Tuesday I got a glimpse of the goat eating a notebook outside. Part of Monday was spent trying to recapture the goat who had then broken into the homework room (not distracting at all) and was wrecking havoc on the desks, chairs, crates of bananas, etc. The goat later came charging onto the cancha during charla (when we would really love 5 minutes to talk seriously to the kids- fail) and had to be escorted off by by Kipp, dragging it by the horns. Plenty of cheering. At least the goats presence has distracted us from that of the killer attack dogs... though perhaps the best conversation I have had with Andres so far involved my kindly asking him not to burn large fires near where the small children are playing. Guard antics aside, I think we are all agreed that Semillas is one of our favorite places in Ecuador. The first picture, clearly, is a pig pile on Christina and Daniel, our ayudante. Normal day. The second is of 5 year old Diego during recreo (if we were to pick favorites...)