Curriculum and Kids

Wednesday, August 26
First day teaching curriculum! It went pretty well. Everyday we have 20 minutes of devotionals, but for the first week we had devos as a whole lower elementary. Mr Laurelais taught it and he just has an interesting way of saying things, the things he was talking about to the kids I thought were kinda irrelevant to them and just the way he did things rubbed me the wrong way. He hasn´t been my favorite person here. Also my schedule got off because of chapel and my clock was wrong so that was frustrating not having a set time for doing things when ideally that´s how it should be done. I taught the first lesson of most subjects including my Bible classes. It was mostly review for 5th grade, which was nice and I felt like I taught it alright to them, that it made sense to them. I didn’t realize how tired I would be at the end of the day! I have to walk to school and back which is about a mile round trip. But I was also just emotionally and mentally and spiritually tired too. I teach at school, come back home and plan, relax a little bit..maybe. It´s craziness. But it was still a good day and glad we live where we do and that I´m here doing this right now.

Thursday, August 27
I kept teaching curriculum today and it went well overall again. I met some of my students who weren’t there the first day and it´s interesting that I can already tell who is "smarter, faster, better at English, etc" and who is going to need more help and patience for tutoring and such. We needed to go to town so we caught a ride with the kids on the school bus. It was one of the best bus rides of my life! Kids on the bus here act like crazy; they run up and down the aisles, climbing all over the seats, getting up, there´s music blaring...it was so fun going down the mountain in a big school bus. We went to Guancascos and got some more food for the house in town. Cooking has been an experience here. Everything takes a little bit longer. I¨m slowly getting used to it and we´re accumulating more stuff for the house, too so that helps things. It´s just funny that we make spaghetti and it´s like the best spaghetti I have ever eaten! haha. We eat at comedor at least once or twice by our house too because it´s so good and cheap. After we got back to our house we met the new PE teacher Ramon Bran; he´s from Teguc and is staying at the family´s house who owns the comedor. He seemed nice and its another person to be friends with in our small staff.