Kusi Kawsay School, Pisac Update



Kindergarten children with teacher Sara and Eurithmy teacher Darsi (my step-daughter).
The newly finished kindergarten building is behind.



The beautiful new kindergarten building is now up and running.  Yours truly built the Inca-style doors.

We are now at the end of the southern hemisphere school year and Kusi Kawsay school is one year old.   It's a new initiative combining Andean traditional culture and the agrarian calendar of the Incas with Waldorf alternative education.



The school is off to a really good start and we had a Unesco film crew come for one day which resulted in us being included in a promotional documentary covering schools who belong to the Unesco educational association.  These are schools recognized for holding to high standards promoting environmental awareness, equal rights and social conciousness.



We finished the school year with each class presenting dances and theatrical pieces.  Our secondary study group of older students wrote an Andean adaptation of Shakespeare's 'A midsummer night's dream'. They made masks and costumes.  It was a lot of fun.  The character of Bottom was transformed from a donkey into a 'cuy' or guinea pig and 'Inti' the sun presided over everything.





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'Inti' the sun and 'Cuy' in Andean version of 'Midsummer night's dream'.