Today was the last day teaching—how sad that sounds! We began with all the school-aged kids in the morning. Yes, it was fun to bring them together for our final time and do something as a group, yet we soon remembered how crazy it could get with 8 to 16 year olds all jumbled together who knew various levels of English. We practiced some chants for Thursday’s ceremony, did some drawings, read a story, and took some pictures. English was pretty similar. T and I both finished our books with each of our groups. I gave my ladies a writing activity on our novel to wrap it up; they all appreciated reading the book because they never read anything in English. I also asked them to critique our teaching for the next group, and they were way too nice. J Finally, we ended with a speaking activity for the whole group and took some pictures. The morning flew by and all of a sudden we were done with 2/3 of our students!
Over lunch we made copies of everything we had been trying to copy since Friday, and walked to Asado for our final groceries. On the way back, I heard a “Hello Miss A! Hello Miss A!” and I turned to look. Four young boys I’ve never seen before were waving and saying my name. Random. According to T, I must be well known in these parts! We ate lunch and I read a bit before preschool. Apparently the boys really wanted to go to preschool because starting at 13 hours, they began gathering in the guest house area, sitting at tables, ready to learn, when school doesn’t start until 13:30 and at the preschool. It was really cute. J Preschool went really well. We finished our books with Y and Z, had time to sing and read some stories, of course take class pictures, and then had play time to end the day. The day came and went—a very abrupt end to our final day, in my opinion!
The funniest part of the day was receiving a phone call in the middle of teaching that mine and T’s packages had arrived—packages that were sent in the beginning of February. They both decided to make their appearance during our final days. J Thank you family! Now I have a few new shirts for my final days, a birthday card, and some only slightly out of date new contacts to change into. My eyes thank you, too!
It’s only Tuesday, and everyone trying to say goodbye is making me want to cry. This morning, M, one of my afternoon tutorees, gave me a card saying she’d miss me and a letter asking if I would be her penpal in the States and asking me never to forget that God is watching over me! How sweet! Love it! Then in ESL, I let the ladies in the upper group each talk for a minute about anything, and N decided to talk about how much she’d miss me and how much she’d learn and that there was going to be a hole in her heart! The other ladies chimed in too! Then, Pastor P came over during lunch to ask us to move the awards ceremony to Friday so that the three pastors could come, too, since they wanted to saw goodbye! There were a lot of hugs today too. J
After school, I picked up my package, and worked on this penpal activity Mrs. D&D gave to me earlier in the day with two of my girls. Funny thing is, the penpals just so happen to be from the church I grew up at home! Anyway, then I caught up on some journaling and things, T and I enjoyed our supper, and we finished off our sightseeing plans for Paris in a few days! We watched IQ and headed to bed.
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