Last night I had some vivid dreams, definitely more vivid than usual. One was about flying over Camden yards, where the Orioles were playing the Red Sox; I had found it quite by accident. Then I felt silly and belittled when Ryan scolded me for climbing up a tower for power lines to get up high again. I woke up a few times in the night tossing and turning. I hope this has to do with adjusting to the time difference, but I am also very aware of the side effects of my antimalarial mefloquine. Sehaya says she experienced auditory hallucinations.
Today, Laura and I had a lesson in Kinyarwanda with Bienvenu in the library. We worked on greetings and some numbers. I helped in Sande’s computer class, where the students were working on designing spreadsheets. Sr. Juvenal asked me to work with one student in the computer lab. Judith, the head girl and a senior 2, wanted to learn about features like text boxes, changing fonts, and clip art, which I happily showed her. Then I let her take advantage of my inexperience when I let her use email through some of her study hall period, called prep.
Sr. also asked me to tutor a group of S2 students in English. I will be meeting with them Tuesday afternoons. I am happy to do so and looking forward to planning lessons again! Sande is their regular teacher, so I will speak to him about their particular strengths and areas of need.
Tonight, Provi, Laura and I did another language lesson. Someone left magnets with proverbs on our fridge, and we showed a few to Provi and tried to explain them. This was great for vocabulary, comprehension, and culture all at once, (also true when we read Kinyarwanda proverbs!). I learned that their words for “hear” and “understand” are the same: wow. We sometimes use “listen” to mean both “hear” and “obey” and sometimes “I hear you” is used to mean “I understand you,” but not to have different words for the concepts was surprising to me. We ended by listening to “Only the Good Die Young,” by Billy Joel, to hammer home the proverb and because it’s just a great song.
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