Daytona Beach, Florida, I’m sure, can be beautiful but that is not the experience that I have gotten from this trip. I am staying in a host home that lives right on the beach and I can watch the water from my perch on the seventh floor. We I look down all I see is the angry ocean and salt water foam. It is wonderful in its own way, but still incredibly dangerous. For the break this afternoon we took the kids to the beach and there I brought up some of the foam. I had never touched that before and it was disgusting. Since there was no place to wash my hands, I wiped it off on unsuspecting children. What a joy then can be in so many people’s lives.
I had never taught school classes before and today I was a teacher for the P4 and P2 children and taught them journaling. This is a very simple process but for some children can take hours. My P2 students were the most difficult, and I had to work sentence by sentence with one of them for an entire hour. That tedious little work is the most exhausting and takes so much patience. For two and a half hours I helped this little boy right about singing with country stars in Nashville, TN. I’m sure there was so much that he would have said about that adventure, had he written it the day after, but he had put aside this particular journal entry for several weeks, and had totally forgotten everything. What a job. We had just been to Disney World, as I mentioned earlier, and all the children were to write about the experience there. We talked about all the rides, movies, and the parade which brought back that joy that they had all felt. So many children dream of going to Disney World and their dream came true.
And conveniently I have already been in the news paper with one of my students. My first day of teaching and I am already famous...haha Here's the link: http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST01052209.htm
