Wednesday/Miercoles

Wednesday mornings I start the day in Talleres/workshop. It is separate from the school. All pequenos are required to accomplish at least one taller. It's a little sexist in that the varones/boys partake in metal working, automotive, carpentry, etc., while the girls are in sewing, gardening, etc. There is also a school in talleres for kids who probably would not be successful in a regular high school and/or university (a.k.a. alternative school). In this way, the goal is that the kids will be able to at least have a trade to put to use when the leave the ranch. I do speech-language therapy with Luis Miguel in talleres. He's a 16-year-old with semiparesis. His goals are to produce the trill /rr/. We do lots of oral motor exercises. Essentially he probably will never be able to correctly produce the trill /rr/ because of his paresis, but we keep trying! I then head down to the school and have individual speech therapy with four students. Mostly articulation and basic language activities. School is over at 1:00 on Wednesday through Friday, so I usually meet up with Vanesssa and Annemarie and we head to the cocina/kitchen for lunch together. Then I take my tipico/normal "siesta", go for a run, shower, head to hogar, and then check my email. Sometimes there are parties in Casa Personal (any day of the week) in the evenings where we make pastel/dessert, fun drinks, have fogatas/bon fires, or just hang out. Usually things are quiet and we're all in bed by 11:00 pm.

**Picture: walking to Talleres during orientation