Just starting to hit me now
The week is going quickly. It just hit me today that goodbyes are just around the corner. Already I can see that the week will fly. Six weeks has been great, but I feel that I have only just gotten into a groove with these kids. I won’t miss all of the planning of the lessons, but I will definitely miss the laughs at the school, the giggly girls, the class standing and saying “Good Morning Teacher”, the ladies high fiving each other, and the daily feeling of being so impressed by them all. It sucks, I feel like I am finally learning most of their names. I’m sad for them… when I go they won’t have an English teacher for at least a week… the lack of continuity doesn’t help them at all. This week there is a community meeting planned for a goodbye which will be nice, as well as a fun day in the classroom on Friday. Tomorrow I am going to Chawamaki with Chris to say goodbye to the ladies. They love him so much and I think that they will be very sad to see him go. He has been adopted by an African Mama named Mama Judith who calls him her son, and me her daughter in law. She is a lovely and cuddly 50+ year old who lives with HIV. Chris has done some really good work with their group and I’m sure they will remember him forever.
Regardless of feeling sad about leaving placements, I am looking forward to being back in travelling mode with Chris. No doubt there will be some tears and sadness giving 70+ hugs goodbye at the school, but there will be happiness too when we get on the plane to Dar > Joburg on Sunday.
More later, we are on our way to tutor the ladies now…
bye for now
Paula
August 28 2007 12:19 pm | Tanzania
August 30th, 2007 at 5:31 am
wE ARE SURE YOU WILL BE SAD TO LEAVE EVERY ONE YOU HAVE HELPED IN THE LAST SIX WEEKS.yOU BOTH HAVE SO MUCH LOVE IN YOUR HEARTS TO HELP THESE PEOPLE AND WERE SURE YOU TAUGHT THEM ALOT.mAKE IT A HAPPY DAY THAT YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO DO WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THEM.yOUR TRIP WILL BE FULL OF MEMORIES.yOUR DAD AND i WISH WE WERE THERE WITH YOU,ALL IS WELL HERE,TAKE CARE AND STAY SAFE,LOVE YOU BOTH LOTS,OXOX bONNIE AND DAD