Ok so this term isn't as bad as I thought. Internet Prep that we used to supervise, and Internet sessions on the weekends have been completely canceled due to some of the girls abusing the privilege by doing various naughty things....like finding out a teacher's password and logging on to their accounts to go on illegal websites like Facebook or Myspace... which is fine with me, because it gives me more free time to do my own things.
I've been having so much fun teaching Art and Music with the primary kids...for the older kids I'm doing an introduction to different genres of music like classical, jazz, blues, rock, hiphop, pop, R&B, rap, alternative, ...and much more. Each lesson I go through each genre in depth, and they learn a little about what it is, and how they can tell the difference. I'm bringing in my laptop & speakers and they are really enjoying listening to different kinds of music.... these kids are just so absorbed in their Hannah Montana/High School Music/Jonas Brothers stuff, that they have never heard of people like Beethoven, Bach, or Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson (ok, they know Michael Jackson...well, most of them I think), Nat King Cole....
They are responding really well, and it looks like they are having fun listening and learning about different types of music. For the younger kids, I just picked up where Shaudi left off... I think my favorite class is the grade 1&2s, even though they are crazy, they are the best & most enthusiastic singers! The other day we marched around the classroom belting out Teaching Peace at the top of our lungs! The kids are so much fun to be around. For art once, I had the grades 4-7 class listen to different songs and then draw how they feel in patterns and colors.... they had a lot of fun doing that too.
When the girls came back, I realized that I really missed having them around... my grade 6,7&8 girls are so sweet and loving and it was nice for the dorms to not be so eerily quiet.
We've had some major creepy crawly problems these days...the newest problem is the "Frog in the Toilet" issue where there are literally like 5 frogs in each toilet...and when we try and flush them down, they just jump up. It's grooosss. The other day at the Mahoney's I saw probably the biggest wall spider I have ever seen in my entire existence. It was hairy, and as big as the stretch of my hand. And my hands are big. It was like a super-hero spider, because Mr Mahoney chased it around with a broom trying to kill it, and it took about 5 tries until it died... they are really fast. Other than the frog issue though, the amount of bugs have died down, because the seasons are changing. The weather is moving to "Winter" where it gets like 50 degrees outside in the morning, with fog and everything. It doesn't seem like much, but when you're used being really hot everyday and then suddenly it's 50 degrees...it's COLD. There's no insulation, no heat, so you can't really escape from it. These days I've been sleeping in sweats, socks, sweatshirt and I'm still cold! I think I'm going to die when I arrive in Seattle - July or not.
Last Sunday we went to Lusaka to go shopping at the Sunday Market, and we bought so many souvenirs and gifts.... they took up one whole suitcase! Ahh.
Well, this is the second to last whole month of my year of service, and I would really like to dedicate my service for the month of May to my parents. I could write a book on all of the things they have done in the past to help & support me out of love, and I am so thankful for the way they have raised me, and how much they have contributed... it really makes a difference of who I am today. This is the least I could give back.
I'll try & upload pix soon... internet here is really terrible.
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