So Nick's computer bit the dust...he's spent the last two days trying to repair it, but to no avail. So our updates may be few and far between for the next two weeks.
Yesterday we went to Z's house for after school English tutoring. Z is a prominent Muslim man in the community who knows some English. He holds class for about 60 kids every afternoon and invited Nick and I to come. When we got there, he asked for one of us to come forward. Nick graciously volunteered me, haha, and I thought I was simply going forward to be used as an example. When I got to the front of the 'room' (3 cement walls) Z handed me a piece of chalk and told me to "teach." I had nothing prepared, no idea of how much English the children knew, or where to start! We ended up discussing pronouns, the difference between this and that, greetings and questions, and vocabulary. My favorite part of the session was when we discussed animals. Once the children recognized the English for several animals, I would point to the word and they would make the animal noise - roaring for lion, baahing for sheep, and hissing for snakes. It was hilarious and Nick got a video of it which we'll hopefully post on facebook when we get back home.
We've really enjoyed our time here and can't believe it's coming to a close. We're truly getting a realistic picture of what IMB missionary life looks like and can envision us doing something very similar to this for a long time :)
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We read your posts early yestrday morn but had not a chance to comment then. Had to greet the carpet cleaner then get out of SBT for 12 or > hrs. So many errands to run it was an easy task to stay away. We finished the day off with Thurs. cinema craze + $5 show including drink & pcorn :0) We chose Day & Knight - enjoyed our date together!
ReplyDeleteYou are a natural born teacher with a heritage of many teachers in the family. Nick is precious to have filmed the experience. Tell Sharon - "on a lease" silly :0) Really thst's a good question. Remind me to tell you what Janice Tudor said about the magunga's polish. Another maintenance guy due now and for the 1st time all week it looks like the storm headed for TX will not impeed the FL sunshine in Destin - hopefully we'll take a break from all tne necesities of rental management and hit the sand for a bit today!!! So looking forward to a wonderful visit with yawl when the time is right.
oxoxo, Momma and Daddy