Cannot Believe We've Been Here 7 Months

Week 2 of teaching is in the books (we only teach Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) and we can say that things are still going well. The challenge we still face is that we haven’t yet worked out a schedule with the man who teaches 5th and 6th grades (combined classes). Our tentative plan with the principal is that we’ll teach for an hour or so on each of the three days. This week, however, we taught for two and a half hours on
Wow, 7 months. Sometimes it feels like forever, but usually we just wonder where the last 7 months have gone.

Monday and Thursday and on Tuesday we taught the 4th grade all day. So at least for this week we became more like substitute teachers. But we are more than happy to do it because the kids love us and it’s very rewarding.

On Monday we took a short break between subjects to field any questions the kids may have about America. Two highlights were whether there is Vaseline and carrots in America?
Word of our teaching has spread very quickly. Actually, word of pretty much anything we do spreads quickly. But with respect to our teaching, we’ve been approached by children from two other primary schools and one high school student to come teach at their schools. So it looks like our fan club is slowly building unbeknownst to us.
When we haven’t been teaching this week we’ve been at our NGO and things are also going well there. We are still in the process of starting an afterschool drop-in center for orphans and other vulnerable children. We have been “in the process” for some time but there is definitely movement and we should know in the next couple weeks when we will actually be able to open the doors, so to speak.

We will post again when we have more to say. And on a side note, it’s very difficult to make these posts humorous when life is going well, so I guess as readers you should be rooting for something bad to happen. Maybe a drunk lady will kiss us this weekend. Fingers crossed!