Wednesday

We started practicum, and boy is that an eye-opening experience. In the 4th grade class, we were learning names of colors and trying to form sentences like "The ____ is ____", then filling in 'ball' and 'red'. I remember reading The Witches by Roald Dahl in second grade and writing research paragraphs on a different topic every day by fourth grade. Then again, that was in my first language. I have to give these kids credit for trying to do everything in a second language.
I'm definitely learning a lot about teaching through this practice period. I'm glad I can try and fail here, where there are no consequences, before going out to Kili to teach my kids for real.

I look at the ocean differently here than at home; waves crash directly onto sharp coral, so no one really swims in the ocean. Where at home the ocean was a place of recreation, here it is a boundary.