Ahhhh! Six weeks! Yesterday was stellar! Homesickness has gone (for the time being). Weather is holding up! All is good! The morning started off in a bit of a mess. Two days ago our extra bus broke down in the middle of the route and hadn’t been fixed by yesterday, leaving us stuck with this puny little thing. I feel like I can’t even call this machine a bus; it’s actually smaller than most cars in America. And it wasn’t exactly up to prime driving standards either—take a look at the tires.
The tiny bus wasn’t exactly roomy enough for the typical three adults of Abby, uncle Willium, and myself. Uncle, a term of endearment for all the non-teacher employees at the school, had to go by himself. Abby and I waited at school for another bus to come that could pick up what kids didn’t fit in Uncle’s bus. However, space was so limited in tiny bus that it could only make a few stops and had to turn around to drop the load of kids off, so it was back before any real bus had arrived. It took 3 trips to get all the kids to school. Eventually a real bus helped us out. Surprisingly everybody got to school on time!
At school, yesterday morning, I taught two full lessons for Teacher Pius. I think I’d previously said he was pawning off most of his marking duties, but scratch that—he’s pawning off all of his teacher duties. I enjoyed it though and hope to do it more, so this is in no way a complaint. I will, however, complain about the 3 hours of proper marking I decided to do. Normally I just put checks where the pupils did the work or an “x” where they didn’t, but yesterday I decided to tell them what they were getting wrong and how to fix it. Those 3 overly ambitious hours got me through 1/10 of the past months work, so maybe I’ll just revert to my old strategy for past work and reserve the good marking for future notes.
I was able to practice some guitar during remedial classes. The bus routes before and after were nothing special, thankfully. We had extra small bus back again and although it was tight we only required one trip on the routes. Abby and I got home right around 7:30, leaving ample time for me to help with homework. I was able to get to sleep around 10 which was great. Today there is a big football match between teachers and drivers; staff and kids have been hyping it up all week. I get to play in it, but I’m not sure I’ll be in for more than a couple minutes once they see my foot dexterity…