India is most definitely more organized than Tanzania, which is very nice. It's only the first day and already we know pretty much what we will be doing for the rest of the week. Today the alarm woke us up at 7:45. Breakfast was served at 8:15. It was noodles, some spicy sauce, and boiled eggs. Quit different than Tanzanian breakfasts. The other two group members had arrived, so we met them and talked. It turns out they were on Edwards first global volunteer trip to Pommern. Steven took us to the Christ King Nursery and Primary School at 10:15. That was a 15 minute drive. It turns out, we won't be able to take many photos at this school, because it's very distracting to the kids.
At the school we were taken to grade four. We started out by introducing ourselves and going around asking the kids there names. Most of the time we were nodding and pretending like we know what they were saying. We sang songs like, "You Are My Sunshine" or "He's got the whole world in his hands". The kids wrote the lyrics down and we went around to check to make sure it was right. They all wanted us to sign their papers after it was done. Then we played games of hangman. They loved that. At the end people we're coming up and giving us suggestions for words. We were there for an hour, then taken to a grade five class.
The grade five class started with tenses from lines of a story the teacher gave to us. For example, the story said, "The king had two sons". We explained that had was for the past tense and has is for the present tense. We did the same songs from the other class, then the kids preformed several songs for us, all in English, but some of them we did not recognize.
At 12:30, we went back and lunch was already on the table. It was some more rice and spicy curry sauce. We had a group discussion about how the program was run, mainly for the new people, because they weren't here to hear it yesterday.
We mostly prepared our lesson plan for tomorrow, until 5:00, when we all walked to the orphanage. We were each placed with a "human being" who didn't speak much english. LuRue ended up doing a little drawing with hers and playing a game of "rocks" (Indian version of Jacks). Montana played some games of rocks too and then played three games of chess which she was owned in the first few moves.
At 7:00, we headed back for another meal of rice and spicy curry sauce. Looks like we know what we'll be having pretty much every meal. Having that for 1 or 2 meals is fine, but surviving for four weeks with that....who knows what will happen to us. Steven brought out a delicious cake, because it was his wife's birthday. We all got a slice, so we haven't had to go without a dessert yet!
At the school we were taken to grade four. We started out by introducing ourselves and going around asking the kids there names. Most of the time we were nodding and pretending like we know what they were saying. We sang songs like, "You Are My Sunshine" or "He's got the whole world in his hands". The kids wrote the lyrics down and we went around to check to make sure it was right. They all wanted us to sign their papers after it was done. Then we played games of hangman. They loved that. At the end people we're coming up and giving us suggestions for words. We were there for an hour, then taken to a grade five class.
The grade five class started with tenses from lines of a story the teacher gave to us. For example, the story said, "The king had two sons". We explained that had was for the past tense and has is for the present tense. We did the same songs from the other class, then the kids preformed several songs for us, all in English, but some of them we did not recognize.
At 12:30, we went back and lunch was already on the table. It was some more rice and spicy curry sauce. We had a group discussion about how the program was run, mainly for the new people, because they weren't here to hear it yesterday.
We mostly prepared our lesson plan for tomorrow, until 5:00, when we all walked to the orphanage. We were each placed with a "human being" who didn't speak much english. LuRue ended up doing a little drawing with hers and playing a game of "rocks" (Indian version of Jacks). Montana played some games of rocks too and then played three games of chess which she was owned in the first few moves.At 7:00, we headed back for another meal of rice and spicy curry sauce. Looks like we know what we'll be having pretty much every meal. Having that for 1 or 2 meals is fine, but surviving for four weeks with that....who knows what will happen to us. Steven brought out a delicious cake, because it was his wife's birthday. We all got a slice, so we haven't had to go without a dessert yet!
Sounds like it will be interesting. Have you tried string games with these kids yet?
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Deletehow great to be able to go from teaching the past tense of ‘has' to exchanging English songs with each other---wish you both lots of success with "more “human beings"
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