Wow, it has been a busy few weeks and i’m so grateful for some time this weekend just to relax!! I am now 5 weeks into my placement at the pre-school. Middle Class certainly keep me busy! We have about 30 4-5 year olds in our class and with limited space it can certainly be challenging. Staff shortages have been an issue these past few weeks and i have been given the task of teaching the children numbers and sounds from the alphabet. It’s certainly a challenge to get all the children to listen to me and make learning fun! (major respect to all teachers that manage it) However ‘teacher Tee’ has managed to master song time! I spend about 30mins a day teaching the kids Jesus your my super hero, our God is great big God and other HBC songs! The winner however has to be the little green frog song, thank you to my cousin for teaching me that many years ago!!! In class the kids have been learning about how they are Gods children and are specially created by God, they have also been praying for their needs and for each other. It’s beautiful to see a 4 year old stand up and pray for their sick parents or school fees!
My afternoons are spent preparing books for class, writing out letters and number for the kids to copy- man I wish we had a photo copier!! Haha!
The head teacher of pre-school has pretty much adopted me and Becca as her twins, Mama Jeanine is an amazing lady! She works so hard in the pre-school and caring for her family, she has so much wisdom and faith I just love her!!! She has also blessed me with dinner 3 times now, and boy does she make some good chips!! J
Since I last wrote we have seen some visitor to the base, Kirsty joined me at half term which was great! I r4eally hope she enjoyed seeing life as I know it and working in the pre-school. It was really eye-opening to me to see how different my life is now to what it was! While she was here some of the girls celebrated valentine’s day with a meal in town which was r3eally good just to relax!
This past week our YFG co-ordinator from England visited, it was great to see her and chat though our experiences so far! I was blessed by our spontaneous one to one and i’m sure i talked far to much! Haha! It was great to hear her wisdom and for her to be able to see and say how well we are all doing!
The next DTS have arrived and it been fun to hang out with them for a few days and watch them settle in to base life remembering how I was 6 months ago! We have also moved rooms in the last week due to the amount of on the new DTS so we now have A PROPER TOILET and a decent shower (yes it’s still cold) moving was an entertaining process I certainly now own far too much!
This week Ella who was last year YFG feb student returned to England for her debrief, I remember meeting her for the first time when she was 6 weeks into her placement (where i am now) and suddenly she’s finished! It’s crazy to think that’s going to be me before I know it! I’m certainly not ready to leave yet I still have so much I want to achieve and learn before that day comes right now the thought of having to leave this place is sad i have defiantly settled in and really love Uganda now, i just pray that when the day comes i will be ready to leave ( but hey i still have 6 months!)
Once again my blog post is scatty and unstructured (just like my brain) still I'm sure your get the picture!
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