It was cool to see Teacher Susan (the pre-K teacher) utilize my strategy of playing with the kids at centers and using the toys to do sorting (tanigrams). Also, the kids...I got them to sort of play together, passing a truck back and forth.
This morning, I did school chapel, teaching about the things that tether us, keeping us from the good things Jesus has for us. It went well.
In pre-K this morning, I taught the kids the Tap, Tap song. They loved it! I also did two finger plays.
During circle time, I noticed one of the kiddos got up. I think she went in the corner behind the teacher's desk and took off her underclothes. She carried them to the grass outside and laid them in the sun. I assume they were wet and needed to be dried.
It makes me sad to know that no one helps to care for her/the children in regards to when they have accidents. In America, when a child has an accident, the teacher helps them get changed and cleaned up, puts their soiled clothes in a bag with their name on it, and the child has extra clothes for such an occasion. Not here. The kids here probably mostly only have one set of clothes. After the little girl's underpants were dry, she put them back on. They didn't get rinsed out. Just dried in the sun. I could smell them as I walked by....
5:07 pm
Today is nearly done. All that's left is dinner and devotions with the kids.
Today was fantastic. I loved teaching chapel this morning. Being in pre-K was again great. Today at center time, compared to Monday, was so great! Monday was really quiet at center time. Today there was so much interaction and noise! I loved seeing Teacher Susan teach the kids the 5 Finger Play I taught them. I enjoyed seeing her do some of the things during activity/center time that I taught her.
After school, before the kids went home who don't live at Each1Feed1, I played a few games with them. 'Dog in the Middle', 'I lost a letter', and some of their African games. I didn't understand the words to them, but it was so much fun! One of their games is a letter game. If the first letter of your name is called, you dance towards the middle with the other kids whose names also start with that letter. It was a blast!
9:00 pm
After a delicious dinner, I headed to evening devotions with my team. I stood in the lit tent with around 39 Tharakan children and several of their house parents. We worshiped to "It Is Well" by Bethel. I can't describe the feeling of singing that song with one hand raised high to Heaven while the other held the hands of two Tharakan children, one of them leaning her head on my arm.
I am more convinced through things I've been hearing that my object lesson of the shadow is what I need to share in my testimony on Monday.
I'm still not feeling well. My ears hurt (probably from coughing so much and so deeply) and I'm hoping not to lose my voice. At times, my throat hurts (burns) and my lungs feel like they're on fire, like I've been running in the cold. I desperately need You, Lord, to sustain me and heal me.
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| Playing a Tharakan game |
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| "Beautiful are the feet of those" who play games in the red African dirt with children after school. Did I say how much fun I had? |
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