Today was a
very special day for the children as they held their own fair selling things
they had made themselves. The children were very excited. Señora Cooke and Señorita Blakesley had lots
of fun buying things such as bracelets and home-made cakes. We discovered that
here the children enjoy making things with loom bands just as much as we do at
Rise Park. What a surprise that was for us!
The
children of Manuel Mejía Vallejo are experts at re-using plastic bottles to
make both useful and beautiful things, like flowers, jewellery holders and
mini-bottles to hold sweets and beads. Señora Cooke and Señorita Blakesley hope
to have a lot more to share with you about that when we get
back......................
The mini-bottles
filled with sweets were Señorita Blakesley’s favourite purchase at the fair and
Señora Cooke’s was ‘un oblea’ – 2 giant ice-cream style wafers filled with
cottage cheese, blackcurrant syrup and a
very sweet mixture of condensed milk and sugar called ‘arequipe’ . Obleas can
be bought as street food too, not just at school fairs!
But the
best thing of all was that the children running the stalls used English to sell
us their products!!!
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