Week #3

It's so crazy that we've only been here for less than 3 weeks!  It feels like we've been here forever!

I taught again today, PE this time.  It went much better than my last lessons.  It takes so long to get them ready though, because they all have to change from their uniforms into PE clothes.  25 five-year olds are NOT quick at changing.  We give them 5 minutes with a fish timer (the bowl fills up with water, then after 5 minutes, the fish jumps into the bowl) and only about half of them finish in that time.  Anyway, once they finally got dressed and ready, the lesson went really well.  They were learning about different ways to move their bodies using a hula hoop, and different ways to make short, wide shapes and tall thin shapes.  Afterwards, it took a little longer than expected for them to change back into their uniforms, and we forgot that we had assembly at 215!  All the Year 2 parents were there to watch the Year 2's get their badges and everyone was just waiting for us!  We were only about 5 minutes late, so not too bad.  But our head teacher's disapproving look when we walked in was not pleasant!

Before home time, one child gets chosen to do the afternoon prayer.  Usually they say things like "Dear God, thank you for the birds. Amen."  Today, the little girl said "Dear God, thank you for the birds and the flowers.... AND the bugs! Amen."  Too funny!

After school, some of the children had street dance class (always entertaining).  Today, however, we had a little one get really sick and she threw up 3 times!  Cleaning up throw-up is not my idea of a good time, so I pretended to be really engrossed in what I was doing in the other room.  If they had asked, I suppose I would have helped, but they had the clean-up effort under control!

My teacher is going into London to see Adele tonight (SO JEALOUS) and then going to Barbados on Wednesday for a week (her husband is a pilot, so she's tagging along and having a mini-holiday).  Such a rough life being British..................

We Americans are going to spend the night doing homework! Joy =)