School in limbo

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I arrived from "traveling" on September 4. School was supposed to start on the 11th. Today is the 28th and, drumroll please, I just taught my first class yesterday! It went well, it was 4th grade and we spent an hour and a half playing a rule game where I had Do and Do Not sections and they had to decide which side the rule went under. Most of the time was spent getting them to understand what each rule means, which was interesting because not only are they still learning sign language, but so am I. But all worked out well and when I showed them the project we'll be doing first, they got all excited (tracing hands with crayons so they overlap, then filling each hand with a different pattern, then looking for new shapes where the different hands overlapped and filling every "shape" with different colors of watercolor. fun fun).

Here is a crazy story: I didn't really sleep last night, one of my students went missing. She is only like 4 and is new and in the Kindergarden class. I guess she had been trying to run away all day and they had tied her to her bed (which is ridiculous and a seperate issue). When they untied her to let her go to the bathroom, she ran away. The thing that made it really bad is that there wasn't electricity last night- no lights and she is deaf so they can't call for her. And there was a major thunderstorm. They are like walls of water here. Scary. They didn't find her until this morning at 8! I felt so bad for her. I think they are going to send her home.

What have i been doing with the rest of my time do you ask? Well let me tell you. If you check out the list of books on the side of this blog page, you'll see a pretty good list for only 3 months (it took me a whole month to get through the first one Wicked, cuz i thought it was boring but wanted to finish), but now I have almost 15.

I'm going to get some fruit and veggies at the market before I go back to site (I'm in tamale now, in savelugu you can only buy bread, tomatoes, onions, rice, yams and beans. Period.) I miss fresh things! And dairy...................mmmmmmmmmmm that is the first thing I will eat when I get back to the USA. I hope I don't go lactose intolerant while I'm here, that would be a very sad day. Peace!