June 10th, 2019

9 June


\nToday was Pentecost. Lucas and I went to the Catholic Church up the hill. Instantly we were welcomed in. Some of the kids came and were curious upon seeing us. There was one child in our bench who hugged my legs for part of the service and wouldn't let go. His chubby cheeks were so cute. We left after the greeting and before communion as we had to get back to the hotel and then depart for Urukundo.
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The teachers came slowly in, as most also were coming from church. We began by watching the English teachers (Travis and my group) show examples of there lessons. The topic we picked was 'domestic animals.' It was interesting to watch the teachers act as students and to see the antics their kids get into in the class. We worked on three different ways to bring the topic of domestic animals into storytelling. Mary (a teacher) noted how we were able to bring not only more proficiency in English to the lesson, but use it also to show the importance of Rwandese culture.
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For our final performance in front of all, we took our theme and created a farm scene with cows, cultivation, and farmers. We then asked like a lesson, what everyone saw, to use new vocab words and then we departed for the day.
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Our teachers made for our room a mass whatsapp group so we can share our photos from that day and to keep in contact.
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We went back to the hotel to freshen up, and then returned to Urukundo for dinner and devotion. For dinner I sat with some of the kids, and we joked around and watched Lucas with his magic tricks.
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Devotion we read from Psalms and the children gave us carved doves to remember them.
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I was exhausted after the day, and tomorrow we have to be at the bus by 645 to get to the school by 7.
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Here's to hoping those birds are quiet so we can sleep.