This morning was a fairly quiet morning. Up around 5:30 had a shower, devotions and caught up on my blog from yesterday. Breakfast with the guys and then off to class.
Today was chapel and I was surprised to see Alex being the one to bring devotions. He did ok but his lack of experience showed. It was brief, but also gave me some material for helping explain things later. I also found out that I need to find the right words for people to understand what I am saying.
The first indication of it was when I was telling the class that we could take a break and start again at nine ten (9:10). They all looked at me blankly and I tried again with ten after nine. Someone got it and said ten past nine and then they all got it. Seems simple, but if you are working in another language, it would be very difficult and nuances would make a difference. Later I was teaching about a proposition statement. Lesly asked the difference between a proposition statement and the theme. I’m sure there are some differences, but not enough to count in this situation - it is now called the theme and they are all moving forward more easily now. Then we got to the purpose statement and that became, “goal”. Having the right word is so important here.
Did a lot of resting today - it has been raining quite a bit, so not much chance of going out to explore. I did stop over to the student’s kitchen to see how they cleaned out and shredded coconut. A really ingenious way using a bench with a round metal protrusion off the end that is serrated. It works very well but still looks like plenty of work.
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