Our mornings begin at 6:30 as we get ready for school; take a cold shower, eat a quick breakfast, and then out the door and down the road we go to the Adventist church. Our little classroom is usually used as a Sabbath school room in the church, so each Sunday we have to go in and pull out the desks and reset up our classroom. There are ten kids this year at the Kabula Hill School, ranging from grades 1st- 8th and each one we’ve found out is quite the hand full.
We start off with worship and then jump right into the work. Since it is an A Beka homeschool program we just give them their assigned work we have mapped out and then answer questions that they have. Unlike an actual school we are rarely in front at the whiteboard teaching, it’s all done at their desks. After a couple hours of working and a break, the school work portion of the day is done. From 12pm to 1pm we do different extracurricular activities daily; cooking, art, swimming, sports, and music. Football (Soccer) is the popular sport here, so any free time or sport activity is usually consumed by a game of football. First day of cooking class was absolute chaos. Some kids were helping and asking continually what they can do next but most of them were screaming and running around the room. Of course during all of this chaos, that we were trying to control, in walked the hospital director, who is our boss, adding to the stress level. What a day! We’ve found that most days can be extremely trying. The kids can’t seem to understand that we’re not like their previous teachers and we’re going to enforce some different things. It takes a lot of patience everyday to answer and deal with the many questions and challenges. But overall our first week of classes is completed and we have quickly gained a bigger respect for all of our elementary teachers.
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