Condado Fam-Gym :)

Finally we got to Puebla and the gymnastics club where I will be helping out for a while! Condado Fam-Gym has two different gyms, one is run by the son Marox and the other is run by the daughter Rosmy. I am helping out with classes in both of the gyms, plus some kindergartens. This is my first meeting with the bigger gym they have. It is really different from Tempos in Costa Rica. One of the theories of Condado is using different colors to stimulate the kids.

We have classes with younger kids. Here in the smaller gym.

Some older kids, and also kids with special needs.

Also there is a big group of teenagers and grown-ups. At the moment we are preparing a performance with this group and another specially invited teenager group.

Condado used to be a gym for artistic gymnastics, and still they use a lot of the equipments.

Condado has a lot of cooperation with Denmark and Danish teams. The National Danish Performance Team and other Danish teams often come to Puebla or Mexico getting help from the Condado family. The gym has also had some Danish instructors coming to Puebla to help, but I am the first Norwegian to help out in the club. Can you see a difference from the first picture?

  In addition to helping with the normal classes we have arranged for some extra workshops for some kindergarten classes, and for some specially invited from the club.

Thank you Edgardo and Condado family for letting me come to your club!

Festivals with Tempos!

The first weekend in December Tempos was invited to a festival in San Ramon :) This would be the first time to perform what we have been praciticing the last couple of months! 

We were all ready!!!

The first performance went really well, and probably over all expectations, here is a video of the performance in San Ramon.

Even though we were pleased with how the first performance went we had one more week to make it better for our own festival. For our own festival also the younger kids had their own performances. Here are the youngest girls.

The youngest mixed team.

And the young boys :)

In addition to the different teams of Tempos, we also had some visitors performing from San Ramon and also from the high school that I teached at the first period I was in Costa Rica. Here are the students from the International Christian School in their performance.

The performance team of Tempos would finish the festival :D

Here is the video of the performance team finishing the festival.

All of the extra coaches would get a little thanks for the help.

As this festival was the last thing I would do with Tempos I wanted to give them a little thanks too! I have had an amazing stay here in Costa Rica, and Tempos has been like a big family to me :) I wanted them to have a little something from Norway to remember me!

After the festival most of Tempos had arranged a surprise-party for me :D It was really unexpected, but really nice!!

¡Muchas gracias por dejarme ser parte de la familia fantastica Tempos!

Workshop at Salesiano Don Bosco ;)

After a week of travelling we were back in San Jóse and ready for another workshop. This time it was the elementary school of Salesiano Don Bosco's turn.

We started out with some games and different activities to get warmed up. Afterwards they got to try out gymnastics with our equipment we had brought!

After the workshop we had a little performance for the whole elementary school. They were so happy with having us there, and were so impressed with our performance. When we finished our performance the kids came to ask for our autographs! Here is Troels with the first girl to ever ask for his autograph :)

And of course everyone wanted pictures with us!

As long as we stayed at the school kids would keep coming to us asking for our autographs, even if they already got one.

It was a really nice experience to teach at this school, with all the motivated kids!!

¡Muchas gracias!