Life in Argentina: en el dario y "Desafios a la Creatividad 2011"

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So, before the newspaper interview, I spent the day at E.A.T.A. school with Carolina and some of her friends for Desafios a la Creatividad. The E.A.T.A. school, or "farm school" as I like to call it is about 20 minutes on the outside of Tres Arroyos and it's on a farm. Their school has chickens, cows, fish, crops, tractors and other farm things. The students have the option of focusing on farming in their school curriculum which includes how to drive a tractor and milk a cow, but most of the students take regular classes and are in the science tract, social sciences tract...etc. Peter, an exchange student from Denmark, though for example is in the farming tract. The E.A.T.A. school has a longer day than most of the schools in Tres Arroyos, from 8 to 4pm, and is bigger because it has a cafeteria for students to eat at since it's too far away from the city to go home for lunch and come back. Most of the students take a bus that takes them to and from school everyday.

Anyways, the farm school holds class competitions every year called Desafios a la Creatividad with competitions in different areas. First there's a dance competition where each class is assigned a different prop to choreograph into their routine, the last year's prop was a hula hoop. Since I have friends in the last year I spent a lot of time with them when they were learning their dance routine, and it was really good/funny. The other main events was a replica of a popular game show here in Argentina, sort of similar to Jeoparty. The funnier events were the farm ones--lassoing a cow, for example, and doing this thing with chickens, picking them up with a wire and putting them into a bag. Then there was one were one person drove a tractor to move a huge bale of hay to another group of people who had to physically move the hay bale by rolling it over. What was even funnier was watching some girls do this competition while still wearing their costume from their dance routine--a pleated hot pink skirt, white blouse, and a pink tie to match. Somehow the girls representing the senior class beat the guys representing the younger year in that competition...

It was pretty fun watching all of these activities, and since a lot of other schools had the day off for 'students day' a lot of kids came to E.A.T.A. to watch this and I guess it's kind of an event every year.