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| Melanie and I Birthday-ing |
I LOVE SWAZILAND!!! So last week was the first week of school, and oh my gosh are the people there awesome! There are so many wonderful opportunities for growth, and the teachers are so eager to work with me! I LOVE IT! I have been doing a lot with English in grade 7. Comprehension is very low, so we are doing Little Gold Books and trying to get basic conversation skills in the form of simple debates. It is neat. Really neat. I have been organizing the books that the school has so I know where they all are and can get the book I want right away. I am reading to the different classes too. Kids LOVE that! I of course have a hard time just reading, so they are probably more amused by my voices and actions, but the more they get interested, the more they are likely to listen to the words and want to understand what I am actually saying! I’ve been taking lots of books home every afternoon too. Reading to the little neighbor kids, finding material that relates to things about which I’ve spoken with people around town and giving them books I think will help them. People get pumped about that kind of stuff!
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| Laundry Day at the River |
Also my birthday a couple weeks ago was awesome! I went to Mbabane with Melanie (a Peace Corps pal). While I waited for her to come, I had a mocha at a cafe downtown (powdered hot chocolate with espresso - awesome) and took a hot SHOWER at the Peace Corps office (euphoria). We went out to a nice (I use “nice” loosely. Nicest thing I’ve seen since June 25) restaurant for lunch, and brought home frozen pizzas (did not expect to see those in the grocery store - those were impulse) and made a chocolate cake in Gogo’s wood burning oven! It was so perfect! ... Well, not the cake. The cake was charred on the side where the fire was and raw on the other side... but it was a good learning experience, and we ate every crumb of it anyway.
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| With Gogo and Melanie |
So yeah, life basically is awesome right now! I love my family, my work, my community... Swaziland is pretty cool. Anyone wanna visit?!
2 comments:
Katieeeeeeeeeeeee! :D :D I am just ecstatic (if that's how that's spelled). You are truly an inspiration to me. What a blessing to the world that you are out there sharing yourself. You are the kind of person that I passionately believe everyone should know. I know that's not possible, so I get excited for those that do encounter you in their lives and I wonder if they realize just who they've come across and just how BLESSED they are to know you! AH! God, I just love you so much. Keep up the wonderful efforts and attitude! You are a kiss of life to those around you.
NataLong?! How are you??? I think about you all the time and wish I had written down your address... You are way too sweet! I miss you, friend!
Love!!!
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