Comfortable in the classroom

Oh, i wish everyone was here to see the craziest eposiode of COCKROACHES last night! It was truly insane! Caitlin walked into the bathroom and there was a fatty cockroach no less than 2 inches and a baby cockroach. She flipped... it was actually pretty funny. I made her suck it up and video record the whole scene while I killed it, which was a funny scene in and of itself. We were the most pathetic, incompetient two terminators ever! I caught it in a bucket and was going to drown it in water but it crawled straight out of the bucket! These things can crawl vertically! It's insane. than it smashed it with a piece of cardboard and started stomping on it but someone it escaped and was just hiding in the corner watching me just on a cardboard. It was pretty pathetic but sooo funny, because we were screaming in the bathroom everytime we would see it run across the bathroom floor. I killed the baby cockroach no problem, it was the mama cockroach that was freak'n grody. They run SOOOO FAST! it's incredible. Well, anyways if you want to be entertained and get a laugh be sure to remind me to show you a video of us killing the cockroach in the bathroom. When the job was finally finished i flushed the cockroach down the toliet and rinsed out the whole bathroom. While Caitlin was in the shower, i remember seeing something run across our bedroom floor seconds before she freaked out about the 2 cockroaches in the bathroom, so i had to check our room before she came out otherwise she'd freak out even more. Believe it or not, there was a huge cockroach under her bed... i recorded it myself as I killed it. I still haven't told her and I don't think it'd be fruitful to tell her anytime now when she's in India but i can't wait to show her the video of this cockroach. When we woke up this morning Caitlin told me she saw a baby cockroach that snuck through our door.... and sure enough there was one. We were too tired to care about anything and I just smacked it with my sandal and went back to bed. We both sort of forgot about it until we confirmed that it wasn't a dream and there was one this morning. Well, that was the excitment of last night.
Today I worked with Mongol and we worked mainly on words. I gave him 18 words in a word box and created him fill in the blanks and a crossword puzzle. He really enjoyed the cross word puzzle and he learned some new words he never unstood before. I also taught him how seasons were created and the concept of "degree". And he also learned what a valley is. I finally feel as if teaching is something I'm actually good at. Mongol really respected me and was really happy about what he was learning, and most of the teachers here don't try to change things up too much because they want the student to understand it and fully grasp it but, i don't want to change things either I just want to fully explain it and also challegne the student. It's also really hard for when i feel as if sometimes the teachers are teaching the students the wrong thing... I'm the only teacher that is speaking English. The other teachers are from France and Austria. There's no problem with that but they teach the kids to pernounce the words incorrectly and I would often have to correct them, which kind of worries me, about long term english teachers. Usually the teachers would point out something on the map ... the 7 continents and Mongol would have to name them, but on the map there are already the labels and Mongol can read pretty well. So I drew out the map on the whiteboard and taught him 16 countries and oceans; and labeled them 1 through 16. On his paper I numbered it 1- 16 and gave him a word box of all the 16 countries and oceans I have listed in no particular order and he is suppose to name the numbers. He really enjoyed the activites and we ran through it once but wasn't able to fully do the activity because when I finally finishing making the activity it was Music class time. Mongol didn't want to leave to music class, he wanted to stay and learn more about geography with me. It made me feel really happy. He was enjoying what he was learning and it was something new that he already was familarized with but still it was a bit more challenging.
Today I saw that Amel one of the french teacher was using my lesson for Nisha, the matching the color lesson, that was drawn out as a coloring page of a house and had labels of colors for each items that needed to be colored in. Nisha really enjoyed it and love trying to match the colors and she stayed within the lines! Amel complimented me on the idea of this rather than just filling in a circle with the matching color. It made me feel happy because all the activities were still the same activities as what the students had to do but it was more fun for them and they really enjoyed doing it and also it challenged them to do something beyond what they were doing before. I was really happy at the end of class and felt as if I was helping the students.
Music class was great like always, I don't know what to tell you about it that I haven't but it just really makes me happy to see all the kids so excited and so filled with joy. I wish i can video record music class one day. They're so beautiful. Well, it's boarding time for Caitlin and I to get going... we're going to make it over towards the Mother House and see what there is to be done... maybe catheism or maybe something else, either way we're staying for adoration! It'll be great. It feels like I haven't been to the Mother House in forever so it'll be nice to pray in front of Mother's Tomb and be in adoration again! Anyways, Brianna comes tomorrow night and ... we're all getting excited! YAY!