Sopa!

I did the Afternoon Program today with Room 3 (the youngest who are about 6) and we made soup :-)  The only other time I’ve ever cooked with them was when we made a cake for Laura’s homecoming back when I first got here.  So this was a new adventure..one that I didn’t even volunteer for without first stepping back and really processing through it.  But then I figured how bad could it be?  I’ve only made soup one other time in my life but these are six year olds.  And not just American six year olds, but six year olds who will eat anything you put in their hands and say “doce!” (candy!). 

It was a good time, lol :o)  I love cooking, especially when I don’t follow a recipe and just go for something.  The first step, the same one every young chef learns is: wash your hands.  So I stood at the sink with a chair from the kitchen table and had each boy come and wash their hands.  They were surprisingly good at this… the kids in America put their hands under the water right when you put the soap on, its useless.  But my (amazing) boys first scrubbed their hands without provocation and then rinsed them –I was proud.  Haha.  Well after all hands were clean I set them up to color (and touch what I can only assume are germ-ridden colored pencils…. heh… oops?) I had each boy come up in turn and pour water into the pot, put vegetables in along with it and then stir.  It was pretty freakin’ cute, I’m not gonna lie :-) And the soup turned out delicious (yay me).  It was so good I even gave some to a tia, because I wasn’t worried she’d hate it :-)  I love the Afternoon Program