Stuff about stuff

Ok, I promised Michelle that I'd try to write more often, since apparently it's an issue. We've been here about three months now, and I feel that time has passed quickly but also, oh, so slowly. Every day seems like it's three days long at least, but the months seem to fly by. Very strange.

This last Friday, we went on a field trip to the English Village about an hour and a half from our Kinderest. I do not enjoy spending an hour and a half in a van filled with ten 5-year-olds. Not one bit. Sure, they're cute and they're adorable and I love teaching them. But put them all in a van and make them sit still for an hour and a half... Well. Not an experience I'd like to relive any time soon. It was nice to get outside of the city though. I'd mostly forgotten what things like grass and wide open spaces look like.

My religion class last term was fairly standard as far as religion classes here go. There were four members, aged between 30-70. On average, two to four of them would show up each class period.

So far this term, my religion class has been hectic. Anywhere between one and six people will show up. I've had people show up one day and not come ever again, show up for a week and not come back, register two weeks into classes and show up for the first time 45 minutes into class... It's starting to be difficult to know how to proceed with the class, but I'm trying my best. It's hard to be welcoming to new students who've come into class 30 minutes late, proceed with the worksheet study and catch them up on everything they've missed for the past few days because they've been absent. Then again, I'm getting a lot better at improv.

Ok, I think that's about it for now. Off to work on religion class materials.

~Christina