Relaxing day!!!

I'm really far behind on posting blogs and I figure everyone is getting somewhat tired of hearing about the mundane details of the day...like the fact that I shower every morning at 6:45 am.

Anyways, Thursday in class was much better. I was at the nursery school and the teacher was there and she led the lesson. We spent the week doing letters A,B, and C and the numbers (1-10) in English and Swahili. The lessons are really remedial and the teacher speaks very little English...yet she is teaching the lesson. That's pretty much how it goes in all of Moshi I think. I went over to the secondary school for the second half of the morning but requested not to teach because I had no idea where in English lessons the students were. I opted to watch the lesson given by Madam Mary. Only after heading off to the class did I realize that I was going to be watching her teach Form 2 and she had asked me to teach Form 1. This was not going to be a helpful shadowing...

It actually was. The students in Form 2 are only mildly ahead of the students in Form 1. It was a great lesson for me -- a relearning of present participle ('I have left the building' if you needed a reminder...). I left the class somewhat ready to start teaching on Friday.

Thursday afternoon we got some free time for the first time all week. I spent the afternoon at an internet cafe (actually writing the previous entry) and wandering around town. Moshi is an incredible place and I love being here. Everyone is so friendly and welcoming. It's going to be so hard to leave!!! Tomorrow is my half-way mark.