So I went to breakfast this morning and thought I heard an eerily close imitation to the voices of Len Casper and Bob Brenly, weird right? However, that is exactly what I was hearing…as I look to the TV in the breakfast area I notice that they had the Chicago Cubs game on!!! Needless to say I was sure they were losing, but no, they were demolishing the cardinals, what better way to start my day in Africa? Haha...it was sooo odd!
After breakfast I headed to school and saying I’m obsessed with the kids doesn’t even describe how much I love them! I’m working out the logistics to take home Macmillan, a little boy in my class…haha obviously I’m joking but my goodness he is precious! This morning they all escorted me to the classroom—one girl with an umbrella over my head! Then, when I got in there another boy pulled the chair out and said “teacher, sit sit!” They all call us teacher and it’s so cute, especially with their little accents. After I sat they all just wanted to touch me again and play with my hair…everyone was playing with my hair it was literally going in every which direction, I can’t believe it’s even still on my head. Today I was able to teach English and it went fairly well until the teacher left then the kids got rambunctious. In America I would’ve have been livid, but I just couldn’t help but laugh at everything these little ones were doing! However, it was incredibly sad, because two of the students came up to me with rulers and said “teacher ruler, ruler” and were handing me their rulers to tell me that I could use those to hit the kids that were misbehaving. It was so depressing, and obviously I didn’t use them—it makes me so sad to think that corporal punishment is used here. The other day my friends saw and heard a little boy being hit, I’m not sure I could handle that. Later today I taught math and it was so fun to call the students to the board to show their work, I don’t think they get that opportunity often.
On a side note, did I forget to mention that I heard Wiz Khalifa on the radio? Take that mom…telling me not to be singing my music here! ;) haha Also, I love the fact that every other car I see is a Land Rover or Land Cruiser…my dreams come true, though it is weird to see the steering wheel on the other side of the car! Also, I cannot get over the fact that they have American TV here…in Arusha! We have TVs in our room, though my roommate and I never watch it others have told us we have MTV and as stated earlier I have seen ESPN during breakfast…maybe I will have to wake up early to see some Bulls updates! Well thanks for reading, sorry if my posts bore you :)
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