Today. Our last “normal” teaching day. Kind of. Unfortunately, R and J forgot about tutoring this morning. You would think after coming every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 8 hours for 3 months and they’d remember….but then again they are 11 and 9 year old boys. Too bad, but I think they’ll come tomorrow instead. I didn’t mind having an extra hour and a half off; my immune system doesn’t like Africa and I just wanted to sleep, sleep, sleep all day, so I got some extra time to rest.
For our last normal day of class (since next week we’re finishing the book and doing activities as a whole group), my ladies got within 7 pages of the end. I know it’s cruel to pause reading right after a murder with just 7 pages to go, but that’s just how the time makes it go sometimes. With the lower group, we were still working on household items, so they wrote for me sentences about different items they had randomly circled on a sheet. My favorites were for rice, computer, and goats. The sentence for rice ended up being, “Abby, I eat rice with a spoon!” said so forcefully that I won’t doubt V ever again! I had a big debate with one of the ladies as she tried making her sentence about having a computer in her house when I know she doesn’t! It was quite a funny conversation. And the icing on the cake, using goats as an item in the yard. I said, “V, what’s your sentence with goats?” V: “My family eats goats.” Well, I couldn’t argue with her there! Quite entertaining. J These ladies finished off by drawing and labeling floor plans of their houses.
Lunch time flew by with fritters Mrs. A had made, reading my book, napping, and apartment searching. During my afternoon tutoring, my girls finished their animal books. They were quite lovely. J Then, I finished my teaching day with A. We were playing Memory with cards that we had made from our vocab/spelling words. For the second game, I got a pair first, and then when she got a pair and I asked her to spell for me “cat” she said “But you didn’t spell for me bird!” Hahahah, so true. So cute. Don’t worry, all words were spelled by the end of the game. J As I was cleaning up the materials when she was finishing her last work for the day, she says “Miss A, take these things inside and bring out the mat. I am going to plait your hair.” No sense in arguing! I brought out my book and 20 minutes later I had 12 micro-braids in my hair. Third day in a row. Thanks A! J
This evening I spent a good chunk of time apartment searching and laptop browsing since I was done with planning for tomorrow. I’m in the market for both of them, got any leads on either? Mrs. A came over and chatted for a bit and served us a lovely meal, complete with mashed potatoes. Oh, how I love them. Second time eating them in Africa! She also brought over a visitor to stay in the other half of our guest house since the one across the yard is full. Funny thing is, after we met her, we didn’t see her all night! After dinner, I went over my notes for tomorrow (final teaching training) and continued my apt and comp searching online before T and I continued to tackle our to do list (watch all movies we have here—9.5 left! The 0.5 is because I stupidly only brought one of the two required disks for Pearl Harbor…) and watched Mamma Mia. It made me think of my roomies in America. J We had gone to the musical shortly before I came to Africa as my Christmas present to them—what fun! J I turned in early, because as they say, the night before the night before is the important for sleep for racing!
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