Tutoring for the Retake

Today began like most of the other days here...Noah, Bob and I headed to the medium boys house while Alina went to the toddler house.  We all met up in the Comedor for breakfast afterward.  Noah decided to head with the boys after breakfast without telling Bob where he would be, so he ended up 'castigado'...which is a word our kids learn very quickly...it means 'punished'.  Noah was told by Bob that he would have to be in our room all day and could only come out to eat.  All of the children here need to ask permission to have any privileges, from going to the store to going to the bathroom.  Noah needs to learn that he must stay in constant communication with us so that we know where he is at all times.  If you remember, he had tried doing this to me a week or more ago and got the same results...'castigado'.  The medium boys think that it's funny when Noah gets punished, mostly because I don't think they see many foreigners punishing their children, so they figure that they're the only ones who get punished.

After recess (between recess and lunch), I worked with Luis David and Carlitos on the review for their retake test tomorrow.  We got through 16 of the 20 problems when it was time to go to lunch, so we made arrangements to study together after school today and get those remaining 4 problems finished. 

We headed to the Comedor and then I went back to the room to meet up with Alina.  Just before classes finished at the school, I headed down to the 'tienda' (store) to wait for the boys walking back to their houses from class.  Carlitos came over by me and let me know that he got out of farm chores so that he could study.  Originally I was going to come by later for him, when his chores were done.  We walked up to the big boys house where Luis David was and all 3 of us studied together for the retake test, finishing those 4 problems.  The boys will have to do a little more studying later tonight as they are still a little deficient in different areas, but should be fine for tomorrow's test.  Since we had finished up about 1/2 hour before supper, Carlitos decided to go help out on the farm and relieve the boy who stepped in to do his chores for him.  I headed to the Comedor with Luis David, where I met up with Bob, Noah and Alina, and then headed back to our room for the night.