We woke up and the sun was high in the sky... Another scorcher, we thought. But we were wrong. Withing an hour of getting to the In Need Home, and luckily just after the children arrived, the heavens thundered, and the rain and hail storm began! Yes, hail! The children began chanting "ICE! ICE! ICE!" and it took us a little while to get them settled down.
We both had really wonderful days with the kids and feel that they have made tremendous progress in the past few weeks (and days!). It's amazing to witness. Joyce's group was only recently introduced to addition of concrete objects and pictures, and today they were comfortably adding numbers in their workbooks. Amazing! Some are so quick and so eager to show us that they can do it. Arafat, for example, a sharp 7 year old boy, kept saying "Teacha, me! Teacha, me!" to get us to look at his work. He got every problem right except for one. Some of the newer children (Erick, Stella) still have trouble identifying numbers and letters.... so that will require more practice.
Rona's group had a blast this afternoon as they learned the names of different emotions - to expand their repertoire of "happy" and "sad"- and acted out dramatic scenarios to demonstrate what each one meant. They were in hysterics!! Some of them are quite the little actors and actresses! The teachers and the kids loved it.

Tomorrow we leave for a safari in Queen Elizabeth Park (woohoo!). We are super excited but sad to miss a day of school.
We will take many pictures of animals to show the children that elephants don't only live in the zoo.
Before we left this afternoon, Jairus cried out "Lions are my friend!" - We hope the lions will be our friend as well.

Cheers,
Ruby & Kavita