Emily and I started teaching school today! We only have 2 classes right now – but starting Monday we will be teaching 2 more classes at another school.
The school we started at today is called Presby, which is a Presbyterian school. The funny thing about that, is the principal is the branch Elders Quorum president – so he got us the hook-ups there teaching 1st graders. They are actually very smart kids – their speaks to them mostly in English already and they understand her! The problem with us though, is that we don’t have African accents, so a lot of what we say doesn’t make sense to them and has to be translated. The two teachers we’re working with are really great though and with the principal, they were a great help today.
It was really funny trying to get all the kids to warm up to us. When we first asked them to participate it was kind of like pulling teeth getting them to say anything to us. It was like they were scared of us “obronis” teaching. It wasn’t until we started singing and making them move around that they warmed up and stopped worrying about embarrassing themselves.
Luckily for us, the guys came along to observe us because when we came here, we were only planning on working in one of the World Joy schools that actually has a little electricity and a DVD player where we can play a CD. But the Presby school doesn’t have ANY electricity and definitely not any CD players or computers, so we needed to rig something up. The speakers we brought this morning (which we thought would solve the problem) were not even close to loud enough, so luckily, Joey was willing to run to for the computer, which made things SO much better. That’s when we were finally able to get the class working with us.
Anyway, they were so much fun! We’re excited to finally have something to do here, and especially excited to get the other 2 classes (which are going to be kindergarteners) going.
We only have a couple pictures for now of one of the classrooms and us teaching, but I definitely plan on getting some fun pictures of the kids dancing around. They’re great!
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