Just as the past few days, I headed up to the Comedor after getting ready and drinking my "proffee" to sit with the toddlers, and then we walked back to their house. As we came up on their house, I saw that same creature on the wall that I took a picture of yesterday. All of the toddlers wanted me to take another picture, and told me to be careful because it was dangerous. Since I had already gotten a picture yesterday, I just decided to leave it be this morning. I sat with the toddlers in the Sala where the movie clip we watched was Coco. When it was time to take them to school, we all walked together and Dunia (the lady in charge of the toddlers) let me know that they were making chicken burritos to sell today and asked me if I wanted any because they sell out fast...so I ordered two, one for me and one for Noah.
We got to school and I made sure that they lined up and got to their classrooms before heading to the high school to talk to the director about helping any kids who didn't pass their first trimester final exams. They have one shot on a retake to pass or they'd need to repeat their grade. Today is the last day of final exams, but I'm not sure there were any math tests going on today. He said to come back at recess and chat with the 2 math teachers and we could put something together. So in the meantime, I headed back to the house and continued to work on the lessons/units that the teachers gave me when I first arrived. I got all of the lessons made for the polygons/circles unit, whether I teach it next week or leave it behind for the teachers to pick up where I left off.
At some point during the morning, the electricity went out, so the fans in the house all slowed down to eventually turning off. I have mentioned in many prior blogs posts that this is quite common, although it's the first time it has happened on this trip. Noah messaged me to say that the burritos were done and at the Tienda, and asked if one of the two was his...to which I said yes. He was quite focused on finding a flash drive that he had lost this morning but didn't know where he lost it, so was retracing his steps throughout the morning. The flash drive had quite a few movies on it for the small girls house, so it's not something he really wanted to lose. I headed down to the tienda to grab my burrito, but left the 2nd one there for Noah to pick up when he got hungry. Instead of eating the burrito there, I came back to the house to eat it while working through lessons. I prepped all morning.
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| My chicken burrito next to all of the materials I was working on |
Lunch consisted of rice, veggies and 2 tortillas. After lunch, I gathered up my materials from the house and headed down to the school to work with the 10th and 11th graders who needed some review before the retake test. I asked them what they wanted to review and they said the entire trimester. So I had to let them know that going through the entire trimester in 2 hours for 2 separate grades was impossible. They needed to think of what was on their exam and what type of questions/material they struggled with, and then find it in the book and show me. So they spent a bit of time and the 11th grade settled on factorials, permutations and combinations (which is a rather tough subject). The 10th grade settled on trigonometry and a little bit of vectors. We worked the entire 2 hours and the 3 students from each grade took lots of notes. We arranged to work at the same time tomorrow as well.
I went to put my items away and saw the small girls with Elsa in the yard next to the Girls Volunteer House, so stopped by to check in whether there were any bigger girls from her house that needed to retake the test and whether they wanted to review. She said "no" but wanted to chat with me for a bit. So we chatted and then I headed up to put my books and materials away, and grabbed some water flavor packets for Elsa and a chili-coated Mexican sucker for her and each big girl in charge of the small girls. We all headed to supper and had rice, beans and a tortilla and then I headed back to the house for the night. The power did come back on just before going to bed.
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