jambo! things have been crazy since i got home from katesh and the week has flown by. teaching has been good, though my kids have really struggled. i am taking my time with them though because i really want them to learn this, as it is the basic for the rest of their math careers... algebra and finding perimeter and area when you dont know everything but one side. tuesday after teaching in the morning i went out to the orphanage, which was awesome. it has been way to long since ive been there!! i helped feed the babies lunch then got to feed jackson his bottle. I didnt even recognize him! he is the baby that had two ivs in his arm, the one we werent sure was going ot make it while we were on safari.... now he his big cheeks, no more discoloured spots on his head and he smiles and laughs and interacts. He is amazing! it was so great to see him now and how far he has come in 3 weeks.... stacey and sharon failed to give me a report on his amazing recovery. it is hopeful for the rest of the babies, knowing that they can recover from the point which jackson was at. After feeding Jackson, i went to find my baby who had been put to bed. so, i got him up so i could hold him. obsessed. really. he is the cutest thing ever. dont worry, i got the best picture of him.... you will all fall in love i promise! also our host sister, esther, has come home from univeristy, she is all graduated and looking for a job with her new degree. she is 23 and im really looking forward to havin gher home and getting to know her!
Tuesday night we cooked dinner, pasta, tomato sauce, and garlic bread for our family. it was cool to be able to cook for them. half way through the power went out, cooking in a tiny kitchen on a kerosene can stove top in the dark is pretty funny. we desperately overcooked the pasta, but it was still good. salome was so excited to have a night off of cooking... stacey and i are talking about making them hamburgers in a few weeks, which should be fun...
Wednesday was good, full of lots of teaching and hanging out with my kids. they are too fun. i love that they are serious and behave in class, but then will joke around with me between classes and at lunch. Wednesday night was agape's birthday. our youngest host sibling turned 11. we got agape a cake as our present. We had three neighbors come over for dinner, three little girls. after dinner we got out the cake and we learned the tanzania tradition. first they start with a prayer he birthday girl, all about another year for their life. then the birthday girl or boy feeds a bit of the cake to each person in the family, starting with baba then mama then the oldest down. what a cool tradition. Then we enjoyed more cake and taking crazy silly pictures with the family. what a great night, really it was one of my favorite.
Today i had a great great day at school with my students. we are still working hard on perimeter before we move on to area. During break i got to take pictures of them jumping rope -lyn they are no where near as good as you! but they make me look pretty sweet! I got some great pictures. also during lunch two of my girls refused to go sit with their friends because they didnt want to leave me sitting alone. i tried to convince them it was okay but they were having none of it. so cute. we talked about american food and they were shocked that we ate mushrooms... i had told them on pizza. pretty fun. then we spent the rest of lunch with them reading me the little red hen story from our textbooks. yes we do actually have text books- with stories. After lunch we had an extra long english period because the art teacher wasnt there, i wasnt prepared for the extra time so we read more stories and then i taught them to hokie pokie and im a little tea pot. they are older, but they love it. haha. we even did hokie pokie with put your eyes in... watching them shake their eyes all about was pretty funny.
now, im in town getting some things done for zanzibar. our bus leaves at 6am tomrorow morning and we will be there until the 12th, when we take the bus home. awesome. i am still debating about the diving course, will keep you in suspense til i get back... but am excited about seein gsome where else and getting out and traveling again. and i bought a sweet kanga... a piece of fabric you wear as a wrap skirt that has a message across the bottom, like a t-shirt. mine says dont worry about me, worry about yourself. or something along those lines. sweet.
alright, time is getting low.
know that i really couldnt be happier, that i hate that i only have four more weeks and every day ask where the hell the past 5 have gone. next time... make me take longer trips!! (and come with me! DUH!)
nakupenda sana
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