Today was wonderful. I know, I'm sure my drastic emotional changes are giving you a whiplash. At least you don't have to marry me (sorry Caleb). The school day started out great! There were FINALLY 3 teachers, so I got my B class of about 15 four & five year olds all to myself instead of my normal 45 two to five year olds. When only two teachers show up, B & C classes combine to make the class of 45 with too much range in age to teach anything that meets all their needs. This has been my case the last week and a half. Now that it is just B class I feel like I can really make progress on their learning. The little ones before were holding me down (because they shouldn't even be in school yet). I was able to go over writing numbers, went over the song again, taught them more animals & had them draw and color their favorite animal out of all of them teaching them "my favorite..." in English! A new teacher helped me in the class and she didn't speak any English, so it was just me as far as the lessons went. 


The teacher that usually is with me, though, was walking around all day singing "I weega ma finga, I weega ma tooe..." looking at me after every phrase for me to confirm it was correct. At "now no more wiggles are left in me" she had a really hard time and I'd have to say the sentence and she'd repeat it. When she finished every time I'd say "nzuri sana!!" (very good) and she would laugh and laugh, so proud of herself. When it comes to English, these teachers are just like the kids I teach. Also during lunch the teachers made me eat the food they were serving. Corn and beans, called "mahindi", and it looked just about like the consistency of mud. I shoveled it down though because you do not waste food here. It dropped to the bottom of my stomach like a rock. I never saw it come up the other way, though, so I guess my stomach really is made of steel. 


After school, the girls and I went to town to look at the different shops that we've just heard about but never been to. I got some great ideas for presents for all of you! I need to get that done in the next two days though...eek. Again, just wanna say how much I love it in town. Fast paced, always some African music jam going on, all types of people with the most random things to sell, anything and everything being balanced on womens' heads, the craziest fruit you've ever seen being sold, there's even a "movie theatre" consisting of a TV in a van with the door open and at least 3 dozen people gathered around it watching a movie. It's so fun. 


I took pictures of kids/school today, but it's late here and I don't really have time to upload a bunch, so I'll just do a couple. I'll have more for you later. Love you all and see you soon!!

My classroom

Magareza Prison Nursery School

Kids at lunch - they barely ever get this much food so they were in a VERY good mood today!

Yep, with my hands

My favorite little boy, Amani. I kept telling him to smile by putting my fingers at the corners of my mouth and smiling at him, and this was the result of his interpretation of "smile" =)