Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept 29 and 30

Tuesday
School day went pretty well today. Mr. Lagos, one of the administrators from Teguc, watched during math for a few minutes which made me kinda nervous. My kids didn’t understand what I was saying for the math lesson, so that was tough because I couldn’t think of a better way to show them. I had some free time today and Mr. Bran, our PE teacher wanted to learn some more English slang so I taught him a few things. It was kinda fun and then I asked him some other words in Spanish, too. Jacki and Sarah went to town so me and Laura Beth had the house to ourselves. Mr. Bran came over after dinner and we all hung out and chatted about more words and phrases and music. I spent a lot of the night grading and organizing; a teacher’s work is never done I am realizing! Jacki and Sarah came back late because of mototaxi trouble, but otherwise the rest of the night was fine.

Wednesday
Today was a pretty good day. We have chapel on Wednesdays so we have about 50 min of math and science instead of 40 so my kids got restless. I led chapel today for the elementary; I like to think it went well since Mr. Laurelais usually does it, but who knows. I talked about Jacob and Esau and not picking favorites, forgiving and saying sorry; hopefully at least those lessons got across! Later in the morning I was told by Mr. Lagos to fill out entire workbooks otherwise parents complain that their kids aren’t doing their homework and they wonder why they bought the books in the first place. I was slightly frustrated with that because of time constraints. We only have 40 minutes for each class and while it may seem like a long time, it flies and I don’t have time to have the kids finish all of their lessons for that day all the time. And do they want these kids to learn or just be tedious and parent pleasers? I understand the parents pay for the books and want the kids to use them, and they are, but the parents want to know that the teacher is seeing that. Anyways, later that day I was about to sneeze during our reading vocab quiz, but didn’t and made a funny face and the kids all laughed and were like “do it again!” And I got kinda embarrassed and was like “no!”It was funny. Oh and during chapel the 4th graders were saying everything so loud, like screaming the prayer they repeated from me…hilarious. I almost lost it in front of the whole elementary. My evening consisted of the normal: convos, grading, and chilling.