Its all about the kids..

I have been working at the same school now for 3 weeks called "Alto Trujillo". My Spanish is still far from pass-able, but I have a great connection with the kids and I love getting out of bed everyday. Its almost as if I'm starting each day as if on purpose. I teach them basic sounds, writing and maths. This has been a great help to my Spanish, English and sounds and I reckon if they don't get all the benifit, at least they have a load of fun laughing at my Spanish and crazy Zimbabwean antics. Naa, they're coming on nicely and its pretty rewarding teaching a "nino" how to write. One interesting story happen in school the other day. I was helping a little girl, Alexandra, learn how to write. She would continuously write numbers backwards and start letters from the opposite side to normal. Alexandra had been trying to write the number 1 for 4 hours. I noticed she was using her left hand. I also noticed that her mate next door, who was far more advanced than her, was also left handed. So I had a bright spark. I threw her a ball and told her to throw it at me. She instinctively did this with her right hand. So I decided that she had chosen her left hand not because she was left handed but because her friend had. So I decided to make her write with her right hand. Within an hour she could write the numbers 1 to 4. The school is very basic and as you can see the area is no Camps Bay, but it has character and lots of it.