noviembre

I had a mini-crisis on Monday when I realized that it was already the beginning of November.—Where has the time gone? I am nowhere near where I thought I’d be with the kids by now.—As I counted the days we will have off this month and remembered that most of December is filled with bell practices and performances, I realized that I have less than a month left to teach this semester. Since I had just begun a big research project with my kids, I felt that my feelings of crisis were perfectly justified.

After some pep talks from my colleagues, some tweaking of the research project’s parameters, and lots of prayer, I decided that it might be possible for my students to complete their reports in time. Needless to say, I spent every morning this week sitting next to and standing over my kids as they searched the internet for information on their topics. I made it very clear that there was no time for playing around. (How appropriate that one of our vocabulary words this week was concentrate.) We all worked hard, and by Friday, they had each finished taking notes! Phase one: complete.

Our week ended with a lovely performance by the ladies in our community sign language class. The class is led by the mother of one of our students. She picked out a beautiful song for the group to sign called Tú Eres Mi Rey (You Are My King). At the end of chapel time, the ladies (including two mothers and one grandmother of our kids) filed on to the stage as the children watched with grinning faces. It was so wonderful to see these women praising God in a language that the children understand.