March 14 "Caramel Carrot Catastrophe"

Happy Pi Day to you all! Ahhhhh, does it feel good to get back into a normal teaching rhythm again! Last week was great and all to break up monotony, but I sure was happy to follow the schedule we have laid out for our time here to a T today! The morning began with my lesson with the uppers in tutoring. We defined different modes of travel and made a story book with a sentence about each transportation mode today. After that, it was time for ESL with the ladies in the church (we haven’t been able to get in our “classroom” the church for two weeks!) where I started with my reading group with the uppers and worked on sentences about household chores with actions with the lowers. And we worked on our pen pal responses. Thanks WLC! What a great idea that was R!

I did not spend our lunch time break breaking for lunch today, but instead I went to replenish my talk time and go for a run. Remember how rainy I was telling you it was? Well, the noontime heat when I was running definitely made up for it today!

Preschool continues going well. The students are learning their letters quickly, and are even beginning to learn things like sharing and sitting still. J Lots of sending kids to stand in the back today, but eventually they all came around and fixed their problems. J I even got a big hug from M, a picture with L, held hands with J and I walking around campus, and four kisses on the hand from i. Yes, I know he’s three, but it still melted my heart that a boy kissed me on the hand. J After preschool, P and R are popped their heads in T’s window—literally. This could get interesting as they have now found out how to find us easily when we’re not teaching outside….

We are missing Mrs. A and her delicious cooking, but that gave us a chance to try out hand at cooking in Zambia tonight. A package of soup turned out to be a quite nice sauce for our noodles, if I do say so myself. However, the delicious sautéed carrots that my mother makes with the brown sugar turned into the caramel carrot catastrophe of 2011. I will still be cleaning up from it the day I leave, I believe! The CCC was the highlight (or lowlight) of the evening, but lesson planning was done and power outage 11 occurred before turning in early.