Teaching young & old

I spend Thursday at Jinja Christian primary school and it was great. It's nice now that I've got to know the kids at the village because a large amount of each class is children from there. I helped in P1 and P1 (I think it's equivalent to Reception and Year 1 in UK)

Once they had been set work by the teacher and written in their books, they would all crown round my chair and ask for me to mark it for them, it was so cute. They have "chapel" where they sing and learnt what The Lords Prayer meant.

I LOVE it when the kids sing, its so energetic and fun:

At one point, teacher that was explaining said this "so we know that Mzungus' have everything *points at me* *140 pairs of eyes turn to look at me*...but really, God has everything" 

English lesson with Josh, Jane and Fiona

Being here, I've realised that people really do think we have EVERYTHING, and that we are all rich and are able to do anything we want because we are trained to do everything (e.g. be trained as a proper teacher just because I can speak English). However in some ways they are right. To them, the fact that we have food whenever we want it, the same with water, houses stronger and bigger than most here, and free education is everything they know that is needed.We know we don't have everything because we have seen all the things out there that we don't have. We also live in a culture where we may earn more money but everything is also a lot more expensive. E.g. we may earn multiple times the average wage here, but prices here are so so so much less. I found out the other day that someone paid to have their nails done, and it cost 5,000 shillings - just over £1. In England this can be between £10 and £20...

So I can understand why kids shout at me from the side of the road "Mzungu give me sweetie!"

Josh filling in an answer

In the afternoon I took 3 students from Year 6 out of class who needed extra help with English. We went through their test and I helped them see their errors. Then I just created an English lesson with them as I went along, picking up on their weaknesses and helping develop skills in those areas. I was scared I wouldn't know what to do but it went really well and they began to understand tenses, plurals and verbs really well (probably good experience for doing my English degree next year too in some way)

Womens' English class

Friday was teaching the 18-23 year olds English again. I was surprised at their improvement since last Friday! Some of them were struggling to read a sentence last week and now were much more confident and their reading flowed a lot better. 

I recapped the things we did last week with some questions and activities and they could do most of it perfectly, very impressed! 

test...

I had put together some exercises involving spelling, understanding meanings of words by working out opposites, and more work on tenses and verbs.

Apart from one of their babies violently choking half way through, the lesson went really smoothly, and they loved passing heir books down for me to mark and put smiley faces for them haha.

marking answers

Upon finishing the lesson I was holding one of the babies for quite a while. He then decided to wee on me which was lovely. Thinking "oh well it's happened now" I continued to hold him after wiping my leggings with a cloth. 

He then wee'd on me again.

I gave him back to his parents.

How could I be angry at him though, he's THE CUTEST baby:

Before the wee