09/06/10

Today we successfully had our first REDES with the girls on the computers. We are doing an exchange program with a similar girls group in Brazil where we will be putting together and exchanging presentations once per month on various topics. The first one is basically just an introduction, so we had each girl write up and bring to the meeting the following answers about herself: name, age, what you would like to be in the future, what you like to do in your free time, and what you would tell someone who had never been here about your life here at Laura Vicuña. Most of the girls came prepared so each girl worked on typing up in a Word document what she had written in her notebook. It’s incredible how much people who grew up with computers simply as a part of their lives take that inherent knowledge for granted. For many of the girls it was one of the first times ever using a computer, so they didn’t know how to turn it on, where on the mouse to click, how to make a space between words, how to erase something they had written, how to close a window, etc. And with about 15 of them and only two of us it was difficult to keep up with all of their questions and demands for help. I also forgot how long it takes to type even a sentence when you don’t have the fainted idea where anything is and have to search for each letter, thus nobody was near done and we are coming back tomorrow to do more.