Yesterday flew by quickly. I’m having a hard time remembering what I even did. In the morning I drove Jovin and Rebecca to school. We were late as usual. As we were leaving the house at 8:30, I asked Jovin, “What time do classes start today?” and he told me 8:00am. Aye, aye, aye. At school my Global StoryBridges students were waiting for me. None of the other teachers had showed up for that program yet—wouldn’t do so for another couple hours. Pius found me and said he wanted me to do corrections with his English class for the Friday exams they took and then give them another exam afterwards. I was able to give my GSB kids a task to keep busy while I was gone. I was so thankful when it hit 10:30 and was break time—I was finally able to take a second to think about what I was doing and how I could juggle being in two places at once.
During break I spotted these three broken tables. They belong to the chaos of music and bees that occurred on Friday. Previously I thought only one table had been broke, but now I see that it was multiple. It’s a bummer because I witnessed the two weeks of hard work put into making these tables. Lucas had them built at his home, so everyday I would walk past and see a little progress. And oh how fast it was ruined. Anyways, during break Pamela showed up for GSB! She doesn’t know anything about the video editing software so the kids didn’t have much use for her—it’s a bit like the blind leading the poor sighted. At least Pamela was able to supervise them while I taught another English class and gave them another exam. During the exam I left the room to go back to the GSB kids. This led to lunch and the arrival of another GSB teacher. Unfortunately this teacher left after lunch; he just wanted to come for a meal. The rest of my day at school was spent preparing a lesson plan for Monday (Pius informed me he will have me teaching his English lessons then) and marking the exams that the kids took. It was funny to see the increase in scores from the kids in the unsupervised class… I guess I should have expected it.
At home it was more of the same. We left school at 3:30 and I brought the exams home with me to mark and was given two more from the Friday exams. I was able to start some laundry and then hang it up. Around 6:30 Mama Edith took Jovin, Abby and I on an adventure to Lucas’ new secondary school site. I went about a month ago when it was an empty plot of land. Now they have just begun progress on the wall.
The school construction site was dwarfed by the next stop on our adventure—the 2028 African Cup stadium. Just 5 minutes down the road, this behemoth of a stadium is being built for the football tournament which will bring a lot of economic prosperity to this region of Arusha. It’s in such an interesting location; there’s no developed land within eyesight. Maybe a few homes around the area and shack-shops, but nothing like big hotels or restaurants for all the football lovers who will be coming to watch. It sticks out like a sore thumb, but I think it will be good for the community. We got home around 8:00 for the little excursion. I was very tired and hungry, but I had a little more marking I wanted to finish. It was around 9:30 by the time I finished eating and the marking (not all of it, just the one English test from yesterday. I still have two tests to mark today). I went to bed around 11:00 after showering and reading. I was told that we were going to church at 6:00 this morning so I woke up at 5:30, and at 6:30 was texted that church is off. Aye, aye, aye.