Friday, the seventeenth of August, we did a very interesting field trip with the students. First we went to the flea market to eat some Navajo specialties, then we went to the Museum. It was really captivating!
The Flea-Market
Directly after school we go with our students for a field trip to the museum of Tuba City. We don’t take time to restore us with the canteen of Grey Hills, but make a halt at the flea-market to taste with the local specialties (primarily containing sheep).
The Navajo Museum
A very interesting visit, the museum seems very small at first sight but once inside, there are many things. Objects and informations concerning the culture, the language and the Navajo traditions. A room of the museum is also entirely devoted to the history of the “Code Talkers”, of Navajos which during the second world war played a dominating part in the victory of the United States over Japan, by using their language to make a code which Japanese never succeeded in deciphering.
End of our first week at Tuba City
This visit encloses for us our first week, whose assessment is rather positive. The majority of the pupils seem to be interested by our classes and we made fuller knowledge with many of them. This week was primarily devoted to the creation of their blogs and they discovered a lot of online-tools. Work on the site English-Navajo of association will start the next week.
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