Monday and Tuesday, Feb 1 & 2

Monday- First day of February!!!
Today was pretty good for a Monday; my kids and I worked together well and the classroom ran pretty smoothly. We did have some craziness go on in our science class. We started out the class when Nohemi screams and is saying there’s a bug or animal by her desk. So the whole class gets up to see what it is and it’s a gecko running around. We tried to chase it out the door, but then it ran back inside. Finally Tulito picks it up by its tail and brought it outside. After we had just settled down from that, here came a little scorpion, running across the floor of our class! So I get my shoe out and crush it and throw it out the door. That took up about half of our science class. At least we’re experiencing the different animals and insects of Honduras!

Tuesday
Today was a frustrating day with my kids, especially after recess with 3 straight hours with them. It didn’t start out so bad; I was serious with one of my boys, Husai, because he was talking. I reprimanded him and he was still smiling so I was like ‘this is not funny, take the smile off your face.’ He immediately did and he looked so funny. I tried so hard not to crack a smile, but I couldn’t help it and started smiling and laughing myself because he just looked so funny with how quickly he took his smile down. The thing that was frustrating was that it just took too long to get their attention to start class, even after trying a few times. It consistently happened every class, too. Hopefully I can get things under control, or be more relaxed or something. I had my eighth graders write letters in Bible pretending they were Paul. It was so interesting reading them afterwards; some were very creative in their letters while still fulfilling the requirements, while others were too creative and forgot to include what I asked of them.

I also gave my 7th grader’s a Bible quiz and I stepped out for a moment to get my computer from my room. When I got back, Tad was standing up outside of 7th grade watching them for me. Class was almost done and he had class with them next, but proceeded to tell me and tell them that no cheating would be tolerated. Apparently, while I had stepped out for that second they were whispering, turning around in their seats, etc. I thought I could trust them for a second; apparently not! I had tutorias, where I tried to be more creative with them and had them draw what we were learning and then describe it. It was shortened though by a teachers’ meeting about random stuff (bathroom, grades, Pastor Evelio coming to preach). LB, Kirsty and I stayed after longer to work out, although we felt so tired. I’m going to try to keep up on that through the rest of the year…