I have been in Namibia for 9 weeks now and life has been insane!! I am starting to really get into a good teaching pattern and have finally, FINALLY learned all of my student’s names. I am telling you, they are really hard to pronounce so after trying for a few weeks I just resorted to nicknames :)
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Well, I started that post last night and woke up this morning and everything changed haha. Welcome to life in Africa. So when we had our staff meeting this morning we were informed that the time table and the classes we were teaching were going to be changing. We had to switch around subjects and grades because one of the teachers had to be moved down to Pre Primary Grade 1. We have about 50+ Grade 1s and another teacher was needed. I have spent all morning doing the time table, color coding it on the computer and then drawing it up on a sheet of paper. This is the finished product hanging on the wall in the office.
I am now teaching Grade 5 & 7 English, Grade 7 Science, and Grade 7 Math. I am happy to not be teaching Grade 6 anymore but I am sure Grade 5 is going to be a whole new challenge. I have about 35 to 40 kids in my class that barely speak any English. It is going to be like starting the whole year over again. Needless to say I have a lot of work to do this weekend and this coming week. WOOHOO! Definitely learning to go with the flow BIG TIME! But I am still smiling and learning new things each day.
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