SMALL PLEASURES

So the classrooms Gerry and I have been teaching in are unfinished rooms that are complete concrete and windows. The doors have not been on which has been a bit of an issue when the wind picks up. My word wall that I have taped up continues to fall down as gusts of wind blow the words off the wall! Today was exciting as we watched the workers show up with beautiful big solid wood doors. The excitement was short lived as we realized we had to teach over top of noisy drills and men speaking Bemba all day. The best was when they started to grind and sparks started flying across the tops of my students heads. I hauled them over to the other side of the room while the men didn't blink an eye! Then every time the kids tried to give me some answers the drills would perk up, so the student would wait, just start to speak and off went the drill again……we all had a good laugh, and thankfully tomorrow we have beautiful doors on our rooms ;) Tonight I started to teach a group of the older teens a fitness class. We have to do it outside on the grass at dusk, which is fine but we have no mats to lie on so we all need a good shower when finished but that is not always an option! When I told the kids I could do it every Wed with them, they said, "but why not every night?" Somehow these precious souls have a way of bending me to their whim every time, and I am meeting them again at 6pm tomorrow to do session 2…I love Africa!