A little busy

I am teaching one class now, How to Write a Senior Project Proposal, with last term students from the vet, agronomy and nursing departments. And it is a lot of fun, and a lot of work.

Teaching the class keeps me in contact with students in a special way, allowing me to see how they have developed technically over their time here. And they do indeed change: the poor quality of education in the countryside means that most students come to the College with problems thinking critically and organizing their thoughts on paper. (The plus is that they have incredible spacial and manual skills, and an excellent work ethic -- well, most of them.)

So last week my students all turned in their proposals -- just when the Carmen Pampa Fund people came! I'm afraid I was not much of a host to them, squirreled away with the dreams of these 18 young people.


Photo: (top L to R) Franklin Durán, Nilo Arteaga, Mauricio Rodríguez, David Mamani, Beatriz Mamani, Juan Carlos Calla, Grover Maldonado, Ricardo Ramos, Willy Condori, Luana Fresco, Max Ramirez, Harold Rivera, Steven Jemio; (bottom L to R) Shidney Zambrana, Viviana España, Shaney Telleria, Sandra Pérez, Efraín Paxi.

It is with this one last, long step that they get their degrees and shoot out into the world, all grown up!