Back in the saddle again. I had a wonderful morning tutoring session with R where we started to make our cards for the animal memory game we’ll play on Thursday. J, sadly, did not show. L When I told R to bring him on Thursday, he said no! Guess he likes our one-on-one time, perhaps? But I found J later in the day and reminded him again….hopefully he’ll come because this week will be our last regular week of lessons! After am tutoring, it was time for ESL with the ladies. The higher group and I jumped into our book that we haven’t read since before I was in Malawi; last week they were writing character descriptions instead. But seeing as we have less than a handful of days left, we need to get going on the book so we can finish! Sprint to the end of the book! I spent the rest of the class working with the lower group on writing their last penpal letters. I think this was the best one as far as each lady coming up with their own thoughts to fill in the blanks in the letter. Nice work!
During lunch I did some prep for tomorrow’s lessons, went for a run, and ate some lunch. T and I then spent some time updating our advice log for the next crew (we hadn’t done it in a month and a half…) and putting our finishing touches on the handouts for Friday’s inservice. 13:30 was here before I knew it and I was off again teaching.
I had J and B for the first afternoon session. We read a few stories about animals and worked on comprehension. Then we started in on making our own story books about animals. After that was my time with A. Boy was she sassy today! But a very cute sassy. Usually she’s so quiet and adorable, but today she told me she didn’t want to do the alphabet flashcards because we do them every day (good point since she’s so stellar at them anyway) so we switched it up a bit. She kept saying the Nyanja for words I was having her read on the other flashcards instead of English, but that helped me learn some new words! Malua, Nkuku, Chisote. Flower, Chicken, Hat. The teaching day flew by.
After teaching, I took A with me and took my book, camera, and ipod outside and laid out on the mat. Within seconds, I had gained a flock of pre-schoolers, along with A. Camera, ipod, and sunglasses (magogo) are a dangerous concoction for little kids when you don’t want things broken. They got my sunglasses and camera, but I held onto that ipod and prayed for the best with the camera. I had no idea what they were doing with it (since I had taught A how to use it and then everyone knew how), since I was reading and then A and E attacked my head and started braiding it. T came outside to meet some kids for a walk and that’s when I finally got the camera back—after the boys had filled the memory card of course with pictures of them in karate poses. Oh boys. A asked me to come along on the walk/run today, so I joined, with crazy braids all over and all. I guess T usually goes with a bunch of girls, but today it was A and lots of boys. Only A and O followed us outside the grounds, though. We stopped and picked up M. I chatted a bit and then headed back to work on the advice log again before dinner.
T and I enjoyed a lovely dinner, and since I was done with prep for tomorrow and most of Thursday, we just got a bit goofy and slacked off. However, we did go through all the preschool sheets to return. All 350 of them. Just some copies and pictures for the next group’s materials and then that’s another check off our list! We ended the night by watching The Notebook (as one of the goals on our to do list is to watch all the remaining movies we brought and haven’t watched yet, meaning we need to watch about one a day!), enjoying our pineapple Fanta, goofing off, and bumming around online.
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