Going to Kili!

It’s finally going to happen – I got a call yesterday from our Field Director, Kristin Romberg saying I should pack my bags, because the plane flies out Saturday (tomorrow) at 12:30 pm. The plane is working now and made a flight today already. Let's hope it doesn't break down between now and 12:30 tomorrow (really until I have safely arrived in Kili, around 1:30 tomorrow). I really can’t believe it – I’m starting a new life in a new home and a new school on a new island!
I’ve gotten so used to life here in Laura. In fact, I had just gotten a job the day Kristin called me. I was at Laura High School, waiting to ask if I could observe the class of one of the teachers there, when some students came up and asked what I was doing. I told them, and they informed me that the teacher I was waiting to see had quit two weeks before. They had just been having free periods while the principal looked for another teacher to hire. So one of the students asked if I could teach them, and I said absolutely! I had been sitting around doing next to nothing all this time while there were students doing the same, just down the road! I began immediately that afternoon, teaching the last two periods of the day. I didn’t have any lessons planned out, just got to know their names and told them a little about myself. I warned them that I would only be around for a little while – little did I know, I would only have one day with them. I told them I would see them again on Monday, but it looks like they will be disappointed. That’s fine, though – after all, there are plenty of students on Kili that have been waiting even longer for a teacher.