19th January

19th January
I have been at school a week and now begin to settle down with these very likeable children. As I mentioned previously there is five in my class but quite often one or two do not turn up for lessons. Today little Thalia was absent all day and I missed her so much, she is a cute kid, then Kadia came in at lunch time so for the morning we had just three children. I believe it is like this quite a lot. However we got on with the day’s work. This time we had prayers in the classroom with our children only, instead of assembly with several classes out on the veranda. The autistic children do not attend assembly as it is too noisy for them. Now, what did we do today, well it’s been a messy day with paints!!!! First session was in the hall where we assembled with other children. Apparently a group of American’s are here to help also, and visit once every two weeks to do whatever they can. So today we were read a story about a fish then each given a paper cut-out of a fish to paint, well with crayons actually, so not too messy this time, later though we did use washable paints in class. We cut out five large ‘suns’ painted them yellow and pinned them on the wall – I must say they looked good and so did the children (yellow). It took a bit of clearing up and washing down but a good time had by all including me.