Just finished many class with year4 which is a class of about 40 ten year olds.This is my favorite class as they respond best to the tasks I set and I am actually able to control them. Today I tried the whole ask for silence and don´t speak until there is silence and just stare at the kids who are making any noise and it worked! felt so good! But my other classes are another story... a work in progress. In my pre-kinder class I had them all stand on different coloured flowers and they then had to tell me what colour of flower they were standing on and once they saw a sticker was involved they seemed to get it! In other classes I help with the english teacher. The children see this as an opportunity to ask me what their names mean in english and don´t believe me when I tell them that it doesn´t exist! Another lesson an 11year old boy sat me down and starting doing my hair! He stole all the hairclips from the girl beside me and put them in my hair and told me how beautiful my hair was. He even stole the girls mirror to show me the finished product! But most of the kids like playing with my hair, I think the fact is is blonde is a novelty.Although all the children had to get their hair checked the other day for headlice. No pink letters here, they all had to get their hair individually checked by a teacher so i better watch out!
Spring is here now and the weather is getting better although the mornings are still sooo cold! The girls in the internado have to get up every morning at half six and they always make such a noise we are disturbed too! It is very strange at the weekends when they have all gone home and the place is quite. Although to be honest we don´t reallyspend that much time in the internado at the weekends. This weekend we walked up Rio Chol-Chol. When we first got to Chol-Chol the water in the river covered all the banks but now you are able to walk it´s full length. It was amazing weather and an amazing day!
R xxx