Hi everyone.
Well, things in Ghana are as good as they can be. At the moment there's running water (hooray!!), TP (yes!) and power.
I went to teach this morning by myself for the first time. We teach at a private school, and the kids all wear uniforms. This morning I wasn't feeling so great, and thankfully the kids were super helpful. I had a class of 11 yr. olds, about 22 kids total. Was expecting 70 kids- now that the school year has officially started, class sizes are 50-70! AH!
The kids are so hungry to learn. It's amazing. Makes me think about American kids and how many complain about school and ditch, etc. After our art lesson was done, they asked me to teach them more subjects. Their regular teacher was out for the day, so I gave in an on the fly went through a science lesson on the digestive system. Drew the digestive system on the board and asked them to help label and describe it. Takes me back to my high school freshman bio days. One of the kids even got cardstock paper to have me draw the digestive system large-scale for them to learn from. Gave me his science took too. So now I have homework for the weekend, haha!
I'm enjoying teaching and having a classroom of kids. I don't mind spending time to lesson plan, cuz it sure beats winging it the day of!
Keeping this entry short. Uploading pictures whenever I can, sorry the albums are huge! Wish I could insert pictures into the blog, but don't know how to or if it's possible.
~T :)
