Rice or Lice?

They woke up at a whopping 6:30 again. They went to breakfast and then the team went to the school to teach. Montana and LuRue were led to their classroom they were in yesterday at the end of the day. About 10 kids were waiting for them. Haran (the assistant principal) left, leaving LuRue and Montana to teach kids English without any plan or anything. LuRue started doing what she did in China, which was saying, “My name is LuRue. I am from Arizona.” Montana did the same thing as LuRue wrote: My name is ­­­__________. I am from ___________. on the blackboard. Then LuRue had each student say their name and where there were from. LuRue asked them several more questions. Montana, having no idea what the heck was going on, just stood awkwardly in the background erasing and writing things LuRue said on the blackboard.

Haran came in a few times to see how it was going. One time he came in while one of the kids was saying his favorite food, which was rice. However, the kids get R and L mixed, so it sounded like the kid said “I like lice” instead of “I like rice”. So the rest of the class period was spent trying to get them to say R and L clearly.

The next class came in and the class started the same way. This time, though, instead of having the kids just say their name, Montana had an idea and wrote up a chart where the kids would come up to, say My name is…I am from… and wrote it up. There were some crazy names! Then, questions were asked, but this time, Montana and LuRue switched off who asked what question. Then we worked with R and L again, but LuRue had an addition. She used the words right and left and had the kids say, “Turn on the right.” Or “Turn on the light.” When the class said, “Turn on the right.” LuRue would turn right. When the class said, “Turn on the light.” LuRue would pretend like she was turning a light on.

After that was done, they still had a bit of time to spare. Montana asked them about the type of music they liked. The two main genres that popped up were bongo something or other (a genre neither of us had heard of) and hip-hop. When hip-hop was mentioned, LuRue told the kids how Montana knew how to hip-hop dance and told them that she would demonstrate. So, Montana showed them a simple move and had the kids try it. They then showed us some dance moves from that bongo genre. That took them to the end of the class.

Montana and LuRue had one more class to teach, so they pretty much did the same thing they had been doing with one more addition. Montana had the idea of naming off two kids from the name list and they would come up. One of the kids would say, “Turn on the right.” Or “Turn on the light.” The other one would do the action and vise versa.

After their classes, they were taken to school discussion, which happens every Thursday. There were two groups. A guy named a riddle and the first team would have to figure it out within a minute. Then the other team would try and ask another riddle. They did the same thing with proverbs, but the teams would have to explain the meaning of it.

After that they went to the mission house for lunch and then Lindsay took them to the place she got a skirt homemade. It’s depressing when you start calling that your exercise. LuRue and Montana got a skirt too. Those will be ready sometime soon.

When they got back, they just hung out at the house until it was time to go back to the school. They were assigned to another group of kids. After introductions, they played a game of Uno. Then Montana showed them some string games, which they loved, but when they were taught how to do them, they got frustrated when they couldn’t learn them. At the end of the hour, this girl started asking Montana questions and all the kids gathered around to see what she said, which was a little weird. When LuRue and Montana left, the girl said, “I love you, come back tomorrow.” And as they were walking away, they heard the kids yell their names.

Then the group had beans and rice for dinner and talked a little about tomorrow.