A hectic days teaching...

My days now start at 8am and finish at 6pm with a lot of cycling inbetween! I have taken on two more lessons. A teachers class and a class of blind children.

I am loving teaching in the house so much and am loving and getting to know the children more and more everyday. I feel like I know a lot of them really well now and yesterday I was thinking how hard it is going to be saying goodbye to them in December...

The teachers class is in the middle of my days, it consists of 3 middle aged men, two of which are the 'dads' in the house and the other teaches the deaf children for the same organisation. I asked them what they wanted me to teach and they asked for grammar and the construction of sentences......great. I love teaching the children but this is going to be hard! Luckily he gave me a fat grammar book so before each lesson, I teach myself and then plan to teach them! I am accctuaallllyyyy finding it quite interesting....(mum I know you will love to hear this!). I looked to teach myself about the construction of sentences to teach them one day and had NO idea where to start so grabbed a book I was about to read - Dan Brown's 'Deception Point' and took it along to the lesson. The prologue has taken the teachers 2 lessons to translate and understand but they really seem to be enjoying it! It had mountains, guns, helicopters, radio frequencies etc etc in so I gathered it would be suitable for middle aged men...???!

The blind class is such an experience. In the first lesson Sanna and I (the German volunteer) had around 20 children from the age of 5 to 20. Most of them are completely blind and a few partially sighted. Some of the children are adorable, there is an 8 year old called Tye, he looks about 4/5, absolutely tiny and I just want to take him home, give him a bath, buy him some clean clothes that fit him, give him some food and a cosy bed and just play games with him all day. During the lesson we sang lots of songs and played games together. They loved 'if your happy and you know it' and Sanna and I made up a couple of...interesting...songs!! They were all just so enthusiastic and seem to get along with each other so well it really was a lovely lesson. The lesson finished and one of the little children, Garn, walked to me and hugged my legs, she is a little sweetie. The rest of the children came to me and shook/felt my hands. When the last child left the room I looked over at Sanna who was feeling exactly how I was, speechless and very emotional...

The photos are of some of my children from the house...