The end of classes with the kids

English classes with two of my favorite students ("the kids", both 5 and 7 years old) have ended.  Florian and Alexandre's family moved out of Santiago last week to follow the parent's careers and to gain experience living in the States.

Classes with the kids were an interesting experience; we played card games, read books about spiderman, built things with a plastic tool set, drew pictures of superheroes and they even cooked crepes for me out of play dough (the kids are French, of course). 

Getting to their house was a unique experience as well, requiring a metro ride and then squeezing into the back of a taxi colectivo while the taxi driver (usually with a cross hanging from the mirror and some form of latin music blaring from the speakers) cruised around the neighborhood dropping the passengers off at their destinations. 

For posterity's sake here are some photos of a very cool card game that we used to play.  Called Mille Bornes the game requires the players to select cards that enable them to travel 1000 kilometers.  The first person to travel exactly 1000 kilometers (and not over) wins, and they must avoid flat tires, car crashes and running out of gas to do it.  One of the funniest parts of the game was the car engine noises that the kids made when they selected their 50, 75, 100, or 200 km cards.  Who says kids need video games to have fun these days?