We found out we have an extra day we can spend in Prilep because Agnes was flying from Sofia one day later than we thought. Since we did not have enough time yesterday to do the events we planned, this was a great opportunity for us.
As we were preparing for the afternoon and worked thru the materials we collected, there was a game we spontaneously started with the kids in the yard of our house. We created a table with fields for each letter of the Macedonian alphabet. Each field was for an object that started with that letter. The kids played shop, where if you wanted to „buy“ something, you had to show the given letter, either with your fingers or the whole body.
In the afternoon we organized a similar event in Varosh, where we went already the day before to see the old churches. With help of the people in the village shop, we bought things „according to the alphabet“ and placed them on the „alphabet table“ in front of the shop. We were then „selling“ each thing in exchange for a letter, as we did earlier with kids in Prilep. Our alphabet shop sold out while we managed to engage and entertain half of the village. As we were leaving, even the kids who did not participate in the event already played the letter game on their own.
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