"Mom, I'm going to watch TV."
"Okay."
But I walk into the room and she's reading a book. A book I brought home from the library the other day because I thought my kids might enjoy it. A book about a group of schoolchildren in Guatemala who double the size of their bursting-at-the-seams one-room school by working with their community to collect and improvise soda bottle "bricks" (soda bottles stuffed full of non-biodegradable trash) for construction. It's a very cool book, based on a real village in Guatemala. The "bottle school" movement has spread from Guatemala to as far away as South Africa, which you can read about here in The Guardian.
My kiddo did watch TV afterward, but not before asking, "Can we make a little model of a bottle school?"
"Sure! That would be great!"
Anyone have any bottles to share?
Very cool!
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