Oh the joys of sleep. J All my tutoring kids were scheduled for the afternoon, so while T had a one on one with one of the girls, I was able to a)print off and cut all my English materials, b)print my tutoring materials, c)create certificates for ESL for when we leave, d)catch up on one of the strategies we are using for teacher training, and e)prepped all the preschool materials. Wow, it was a productive 75 minutes!
ESL was GREAT today! The ladies took strides in our novel. Usually our comprehension isn’t quite up to snuff, but they answered all my questions correctly and know what’s going on. Good thing, because tomorrow we’re reading all day! Then, for the lesson with my lower level ladies, I had set up a store with pictures of food and prices on the board, gave them an amount of kwacha, and made them go shopping. Then they had to explain what they bought and why, give the total, and give each of the prices. I love doing activities like this; I was leery of them at first because I assumed the women, who are always laden with children (who are most of the time screaming or running around the church bumping into things) wouldn’t want to get up in front of their peers and do something. But they like it. J It’s cute to watch them pass the kids around to each other so they can get up and get to the board for their turn. And they ABSOLUTELY love calling each other out and picking who will go next. J I think a variation of this activity is on the agenda for later in the week!
Lunchtime was spent being productive, eating a TON of food since we had made our lunch and then the guests at the other guest house gave us some of theirs, and chatting with the ladies at the other guest house. This is the third week since we’ve been here that they have been here, too. One of the men on campus runs the health aspect part of the LCCA, so he’s got a group here building water filters from cement and pipes and such. They made six their first week and apparently have 24 to go, so we’ll be seeing them a lot! But it’s awesome that they will be able to take these to the villages to provide clean water. And Mr. AB said T and I could probably bum along when they go out to Mbeji sometime! J
Afternoon tutoring was unpredictable. It’s exam week. So I was supposed to have all 7 of the upper kids instead of 4 and only 4 showed up. I guess that’s to be expected since some kids were at school later than normal. Oh well. Those 4 girls loved the America lesson though. J T was supposed to have 2 of the lower level kids at the same time and they didn’t show! But then she had one girl come early for her second afternoon slot and the other didn’t show. And 2 of the 3 of my second slot came an hour early. One stayed and waited, and the other left and then came 20 minutes late. Gotta love Zambian time. J That group (one boy and one girl) was especially funny today because I usually have them both one on one and seeing their dynamics together. “Nest” is a difficult word to say here and it just so happens that it’s the “N” word for our flashcards. So one of them has been saying nest and the other has been saying a mix between nest and nast, so when they got together today they were almost shouting at each other trying to say it correctly! So funny! Then they would try to beat each other and say the correct answer first (Frog starts with f, f says fffff). And we “read” a story today, too, with a lot of action words so the second time through they got to run around and act it out. It was hilarious! Great day. J
After tutoring, T and I decided that tonight would be an easy planning night, so we took a walk and picked up a few things from the market before lesson planning and dinner. Afterwards, planning for Friday’s teacher training was in order before tonight’s double Robin Hood feature: Princess of Thieves and Men in Tights.
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