Two long days!

It's finally friday and we are looking forward to the weekend! I think we need a break!

We have spent two more days teaching, the middle class this time, and when we aren't in class we are preparing for lessons, cutting things out, drawing things, etc etc. It can be quite hectic!

Nothing much new to report, although spot has become our classroom hero! We found a 'Where's Spot' book in the shops and read it to one class and they loved it. All we could here was a chorus of 'noooooooo' when we lifted each flap and when we finally found spot, they all were so excited! We went out yesterday and bought more spot books for them. They don't really understand them but they love the flaps and the teachers translate for them.

They are renovating the orphanage at the moment, making room for a high school, so the little kids have been kicked out of their classrooms and we have been moved between the Chapel and the food hall teaching.

We have been left alone a few times with the kids which is the hardest. They don't really understand english at all which means they don't understand instructions we give them and they like to muck up for us! If we tell them off, they just laugh at us, which is just kids being kids but is also quite frustrating! After school yesterday I got some of the older kids to teach me some swahili and my favourite phrase is 'Mocono Jera' and as soon as I say this in class all the kids put down their pens and cross their arms and listen! It's great!!!!!! (or sometimes they just laugh at me because I pronounce it wrong)

Florence wasn't feeling well yesterday afternoon so I was in the classroom by myself which was an experience. We had some fun with shapes though and cutting out (which I don't think many of them had tried before so it was all new). We attempted some math this morning, which was especially difficult for them, some were able to do it, but alot didn't get it (or just couldn't understand us).

It's such a change all the hot weather we have been getting! From rain to sun! I have been putting suncreen on (promise mum!) but I still always get burnt, so yesterday when i went out to play soccer with the kids, I decided it might be smart to put a hat on. As soon as I stepped outside all the kids laughed at me!!!!!!! So mean! Even the older boys there doing carpentry started laughing! I kept it on though and didn't get burnt! :P

Hosana, one of the girls here, has become our hero. Lately at dinner time, she has been hiding our left over food from Mama, so we don't get in trouble for not eating all of it! The servings are slowly getting smaller from night to night, although they still have a long way to go before we will be able to finish it!!!!

We brought lollipops out again last night and the smallest kids started jumping up and down getting really excited, so I think we need to stock up on those!

Not sure what we are doing for the weekend, though I think we need a break from the orphanage! We have just found out that some other volunteers are here at the moment, so we are off to meet up for dinner now!