Well the last week or so have been pretty standard to be honest! Last week there were six people in the HYT village so that meant only six of us were at the Guest House – Rachel and I took advantage of not having the boys who only eat meat around and had a veggie week, amazing!
On Tuesday I realised that teaching kids how to write is NOT my life calling… I was trying to teach two young ASCO boys, George and Michael, how to write numbers and failed miserably! Flicking through their exercise book it was obvious many had attempted to teach them and failed before, but I was determined! With inspiration from the film ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ I made them repeatedly trace one number I’d written, then join the dot-to-dot numbers, then trace a very faint numbers – and they both did it so well! – but when it came to writing it on their own, ‘3’s become ‘m’
We were invited round Brook’s house last Wednesday – he’s one of the AVs but went to school with 3 Busogie boys so he practically lives with us! He lives with 2 other girls and 1 boy, all are really lovely. They live on Wangange Primary School grounds so they are constantly surrounded by kids and the teachers’ children who also live on site. Our guest house literally looks like a PALACE! They have 2 tiny bedrooms, their kitchen consists of one gas plate, no running water and only electricity between 7pm – 12am, it was actually really cosy though and because it’s a constant AV gap year house they can write what they want on the walls etc. But to be honest, I’m happy to have running water instead!
On Friday, Connor, Rachel, Joe and I went to Valley View. P4 have definitely become MY class, they seem to like me and there’s one little girl, Grace, who honestly comes across as crazy! She’ll repeat what Joe and I say like ‘Minutessssssssssssssssss’ and then pull a face for no reason, or she’ll start to cackle when we write the sentence ‘The girl runs to school’, and in assembly she’ll stand up and dance when no one else is! I actually love her! Plus she’s recently had her head shaved so she looks even more crazy now! Here are more Valley Views pics…
Joe and P4 class (although you can’t really see, crazy psycho girl is the one he’s marking the book for):
A few years back someone donated the money to construct 2 brick buildings for classrooms but, as is the story for a lot of things, the money mysteriously disappears… Imagine health and safety issues in this baby! :
The rest of the week has been pretty normal, Livy’s parents were here for five days so they were just touring the projects. At ASCO on Tuesday, they got involved in our Good Samaritan sketch: the kids had asked to learn about Jesus so an American lady came and read them a shortened story about Jesus, and they came up with some pretty challenging questions that she couldn’t answer so we decided to do some drama sketches of Bible stories to help them understand, and they went down a storm!
Other than that, today was my last day teaching at St James’ this term as exams start next week! I marked their last exam papers and they were TERRIBLE so hopefully I won’t have made things worse, I’ve given them some exam tips which may help… Now I just have to be able to read their writing!
The netball court and my classroom:
My 23 pupil strong S1 class! :
My 45 pupil strong S2 class…remember, this is half the size that the other Bosogies are teaching at their schools! :
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