Pucallpa, Peru 2007-2008

Friday, February 1, 2008

Nicely Seeded Face

As I was teaching last night i was writing on the board the words he, she, him, and her. We are learning about english sentence formation starting with easy sentences. Tonight was a good night. I was awake, had energy, and was even excited about teaching my youngins class. I had just finished drawing a family on the board and writing " Andrew is Amy's dad." We had gone over this family with their sentences before so it was a lot of review and a lot of practicing by writing and saying the sentences. One of my students raised his hand and said that the little boy next to him had a bad fever. I walked over and felt his chest and yes, he was burning up! I wrote another sentences on the board and told my kids to write five more sentences down on their papers like the example on the board while i walk this little boy home. He told me his house was just around the corner. We walked all the way down to the corner, turned the corner and walked all the way down to the next corner, then turned again and walked all the way down to the next corner before we arrived at his house. I talked to his family for a few minutes then headed back to my kids who were supposed to be writing sentences. Tara was just a few doors down so if they needed anything badly they would be fine. I came back to my class and a little boy was crying and breathing extreemly hard. I asked them what happened but i couldn't understand them. I carried the little boy over to taras class where he finally got some water and sat for a bit to cool down and just chill. Apparently a granadilla (a small seedy fruit) was shoved in his face after he pulled a girls hair. I was laughing a little inside but felt sorry for the little boy at the same time. After pestering her all during class and finally pulling her hair, he pretty much got what he deserved. But instead of promoting that fact i talked to him and her kindly and told them to leave each other alone. Class went on and we finished on a strong note. Next week i hope there are no problems and everything goes smoothly.

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