Carmen de Viboral, Colombia- August 21, 2007

I arrived for the second time to El Carmen. The first thing I did was to say hi to everyone; it’s very pleasant being here again. We had a meeting with the teacher and the operator of the project to check the things that had been made while I was in Bogotá, mostly those related with the diaries. In the afternoon I went to the workshop, I saw new people that I haven’t met before and talked to everybody informally in order to figure out their perceptions and feelings about the process. I realized that even if the project is not completely perfect, the experience has been satisfying and the children and teenagers are happy not only with the technical issues of the learning but also, and what is most important for me, with the way in which they are taking place, I mean, the environment and the whole atmosphere of the workshops. More than classes in a formal sense, it’s evident that the workshops are spaces of joy, sharing, entertainment and reinforcement of the social network of the community; I think the effort of making real a project like this is worthy.