Today was a visit to the local orphanage. There were about 10 nursery school aged kids in a classroom learning their numbers. To qualify as an orphan in Tanzania you need to have only one parent so many of the kids have a single mom who use the orphanage like a nanny service which is good and bad. My afternoon consisted of teaching Beginning English to students age 10-35. I created a family tree and map diagram for the students to learn family member names and learn now to give directions to a school, park, market, hospital etc. The Swahili translator was an advanced English student from yesterday. I enjoyed teaching the beginning class more than advanced because teaching advanced is hard! I don't know where to start and forgot how to explain grammar... definitely gives a new appreciation to those who teach!!! Lots of patience and creativity involved.
Bless this kids heart (group photo, center child with bag of lollipops). Lollipops aren't common here (who knew?!) and a volunteer passed them out as treats and he almost choked because he didn't know how to eat it and the candy got lodged in his throat during class!! Luckily the other two volunteers are nurses and took him outside and gave him the heimlich, poor kid :(
And for today's random fact - Khadafy's hotel where he lived is a 10 minute walk from where my work location is in Bahari Beach. Luxury hotel that looks like a palace at $175/night next to people who don't even have running water.
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