I did two different Juggling workshops at my internship. My supervisor is really cool because if you suggest a project she will always say yes and follow through and make it happen. So I told her I can juggle and i could teach the kids and so she scheduled me in for two different days. They both went really well, the kids did better than I expected. They didn't make it to three balls (we lost the third ball anyway when someone threw it on the roof) but I was just impressed they could do it with two balls. They got pretty board of it quickly though and moved onto playing soccer or their own random games. At one point in the first session half the kids randomly took off their pants. I looked at my supervisor and she just laughed. The weirdest part was when we still had an hour left in the session but had already finished all our activities, so my supervisor just said we could leave and the kids would play soccer until their parents showed up. This is something that would NEVER fly in the States. If someone came to pick up their kids form camp to find there was absolutely no supervision, there would be a big problem. Yet here we just casually left and no one seemed to have a problem with it.
One day I came into my internship as usual an my supervisor showed up two hours later (compared to the usual one). She said "sorry i'm late, I was dancing." she then took me next door to where there was a break dancing competition, which was really fun to watch.
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