Hello everyone! This is the week after our amazing Aladdin’s workshops and now is time to think about that, how we felt before, during and after this adventure.

In my opinion, the people of this course is taking a really high level preparing this kind of things, I’m sure that if we had done this workshop in our first year the final result had been much worse than this, but obviously that’s the reason we are here.

Now I’m going to talk about the experience from the point of view of my group. Before to start we were very relaxed preparing the workshop because in that moment we weren’t very aware about what we had to do a bit later. We prepared the workshop as well as we can, taking in to account that in our location, the corridor, it’s a place really busy, but at the end we get a fairly credible market. We decided to use true food for our market and later we saw that was a great idea.

The time to prepare everything passed too fast, and soon we were enjoying with the children. And as I said before, to put real food was a success because when they saw the food they were focus on the task, it was really catching.

At the begging we were a bit lost about who had to talk in each moment but the children were very cooperative and they did it easier. In a few minutes we were more relaxed and we started to enjoy the activity and then the children enjoyed as well. They were involved on the task and everything was flowing, until we finish the activity and the children follow there with us, anybody said to change the workshop and we were confused for a while. But suddenly we started to do another improvised activity and the children weren’t bored.

The other two groups were easy and flowed, we manage the groups without problem and we did that children feel good and comfortable with us. The activities covered the time perfectly and we didn’t have to improvise more, just to do all that we had prepared.

When we finished with the last group we were surprised that there were not more groups because was so fast for us, and obviously that was a nice new, we enjoy a lot with children and they with us.

As I said in my last post, the pity is that it was the only case when we have work with children in the uni, but doesn’t matter; we will have the practicum very soon.