Greetings all. I don’t have too much to update you guys on. It’s hotter than hell here right now, and has been for the past few weeks, so my brain functionality has taken a little vacation for the rest of the dry season. I get about 10 hours of cool weather at night/early morning, but the rest of the day, it’s just super hot and my body just shuts down. It’s been awesome.
Reading club has officially begun. We had a fairly large turn out, 70 students in total (which is almost half the school right now). I gave the students their first reading assignment and tried to explain what I wanted them to do with the notebook paper I gave them. We’ll see tomorrow how many of them actually listened.
I’ve been taking total advantage of my 4 day weekend situation. Last week I took a 4 day vacation to visit my friend Cindy at her site, which isn’t actually that far from mine. It was fun. We had some misadventures that may have involved a mouse at 4 am and a broken wall socket (not at the same time… that would’ve been tragic). I’ll get a 3 day weekend this weekend because the form ones are supposed to start showing up tomorrow, which means they’ll all show up on Monday. I’m going to miss my long weekends. But I suppose I should be happy that I have more things in my life to keep me busy.
The form two students are starting to get more open in class. We’ve gotten to a point in our relationship where they’re actually comfortable stopping me mid-sentence to ask a question, which makes me very happy. I think they’re realizing that the more questions they ask, the better I can help them understand things that they don’t get. They’re also much more enthusiastic about answering questions and writing on the board. Yay progress.
That’s really all I have to report right now. Well, at least that’s all I can come up with right now. Maybe when it cools down later I’ll think of something else. In the meantime, here’s to hoping that it cools down soon so I can stop being so useless.
