Project Day with Lumbaz

One day we found ourselves anchored south of the pass with only Lumbaz while the rest of the gang was either anchored at the village or at the sand spit. It was a beautiful spot, even if a bit rolly, but the real memorable part was when they invited us to participate in one of their “project days” with them. On project day they throw out the normal school curriculum and each of the kids gets to pick any topic that interests them and then they research it and give a presentation about it. What a great idea! Alex and Brenden were not too keen to participate, though. I convinced Brenden to prepare a brief introduction of himself in Spanish, but Alex was pretty insistent that he wasn’t going to do anything. All four Lumbaz kids give presentations to us… Nils-the moon, Noa-echolocation, Luna-orcas, Ainara-the Middle Ages. They were all nervous, and of course they had the challenge in that they were presenting in English, but they did a fantastic job, and Brenden felt a little more at ease speaking his Spanish paragraph. Alex still didn’t want to do anything, but we pressured him into summarizing what we had learned in our history podcast that day (the battle of Quebec during the early part of the American Revolution. Who knew we tried to invade Canada?!) I finished the afternoon rolling my r’s with a Spanish tongue twister I had learned from my Spanish podcast. What a great afternoon, and we’ve since incorporated “project days” into our own school program on Exodus. In fact, the rest of the kid boat fleet did it together at the next anchorage at Matuku.