First Micro-Teach!

I just wanted to do a quick update:  I had an interesting yet sad story to share.  There was an incident back at my home site where a fisherman was at the waters edge and was attacked by an alligator and taken into the water and killed.  After this occurred the people in the town walked to the house I had told you about before which housed 4 alligators, (originally had 8 but four had escaped…) well the people went to the house of these alligators and shot the four other alligators and paraded them though the town.  Not sure if this is a normal response, but…. That’s what occurred.  And yesterday night I returned home and my host brother got me and told me to come with him, the people in the town had found the other alligator that attacked the fisherman.  They had taken the alligator to this main section of town and shot him in-front of everyone.  People came from all over to take pictures with the alligator, and watch the spectacle.  Quick interesting!

I really wanted to mention that I had my first Micro-Teach with real Guinean students!  I was super nervous, but felt confident with the lesson plan I had written.  I began by introducing myself then started with a basic exercise to ease into my lesson plan.  Unfortunately, I found out they did not know any of the prerequisites of how to determine angles, aka how to use a protractor and draw a certain angle.  Therefore I had to abandon my lesson plan and start from the beginning.  This was in an 8^th grade class too.  The experience was amazing, and let me know what I will be dealing with this year, and hopefully aid in increasing the level of literacy!  I spoke with my other younger host brothers who had friends in my class and his friends said I spoke quite well, nice and slow, and that they would attend my class everyday if I was there teacher.  (Hopefully he wasn't just being nice!)

Hope everyone is doing well!  I have another Micro-Teach on Friday, then next Monday I start teaching full time to real Guinean students for 3 weeks straight!

Also check out my hut I slept in at my site visit!  Quite cute huh! lol