Mydog, get better soon...!
It’s been a good
and fulfilling week at the school so far.
I had some nice classes and definitely getting closer to some kids
there, even the ones I feared losing because of their rebellion… I was able to
share some good news from the Bible with them that lead to lots of discussion
because of some of the words they didn’t understand before. It’s sometimes difficult to judge their
English knowledge, because they speak relatively well, but then you are too
quick to assume they understand everything you’re talking about…
So I read for
them one of my favourite and close-to-the-heart sections, Jeremiah 29:11-14.
“For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of
evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Then you will
call upon Me and go and pray to Me and I will listen to you.
And you will
seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
I will be found
by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity.”
So we talked
about the word captivity and prison and mental slavery, bondage and cuffs and
shackles and eventually ended up with Mary Mary’s “Take the shackles of my
feet so I can dance”…
Other than that
I really enjoyed doing Robert Frost’s
“The road not taken” with them, something I’ve previously tried with my
TEFL students without too much success.
So I’m looking forward to seeing tomorrow what they wrote about. It’s great to get them thinking about choices
and individualism and their morals in life…! Even today we had a random class that ended up with them
writing a poem about ‘inspiration’.
I quickly checked a couple of them and there were some really good
ones! I’m going to let them all
write it over neatly and then we’ll choose a winner!
Oh, about the
snaky snakes… I’ve been aware for a while now that a lot of snakes are going to
start coming out now, as the summer dawns on us. And I’ve been trying to mentally prepare myself for that, as
I’m not the biggest fan. I’ve seen
a number of dead snakes already, two inside the campsite and others flattened
in the road. All smallish ones of
about 30cm long. All different
kinds.
The other day
while working in the garden, we discovered a little earthworm sized snake that
we all found rather amusing. It
was really shiny and quite beautiful.
So we found out that it was a kind of worm snake, completely harmless. This morning in our meeting one teacher
told of killing a snake that almost got into her car.
Today in class,
the principal came inside holding a live snake, not big (a Red-Lip or
something) and it was less than a second before all the kids stood screaming
outside the door. At least there
are other people more scared than me.
It was rather funny I must say and I was glad to be able to study the
snake from close-up to help getting myself acclimatized to the idea of coming
face to face with one of them on my own.
Cause that is bound to happen sooner or later. I live in a caravan after all and my tent is not exactly
sealed. Lots of open doors for a
slithering being to freely make it’s way wherever he wants to. I doubt Mydog is going to do anything
about it. So, when it happens I’m supposed to just lift it
with a stick and throw it back into the bush… We’ll see how brave I am…
Other than that
there are also these little black jumping spiders that are apparently
poisonous. They’re quite
freaky. The other day I saw one
and wanted to kill it and the thing tried to attack me! They have no fear these little
rascals! I’ve found quite a few of
them around already.
What I am looking forward to, is my parents and brother and his wife arriving on Saturday for a few days’ visit! I pray that they will arrive safely and without any troubles! And let us have beautiful weather and plenty of crayfish!
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