About teaching, libraries and swimming

Don’t really have anything interesting to say about Sunday: just was a typical lazy Sunday.

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Today we observed a PE lesson. “PE”, cause I didn’t really see the kids moving much…
Marij and I taught for the first time today, no preparation, no materials, no nothing! Thankfully the 2nd grade teacher appeared with a few exercises the children could make. After an intense search for the right books for the kids, we finally got them to make the exercises. We got home extremely exhausted. Let’s hope a whole week of teaching isn’t going to be as bad as this one day or I won’t even make the first weekend…

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We had a meeting with all Dutch student teachers. We were getting a bit more info about Suriname, the habits, culture, values, … (not really *that* interesting, cause we had already figured out most of what the policeman/social worker said)
Afterwards we went for a drink and then headed into town for some shopping. Since I don’t like shopping (at all!) I was bored after visiting two shops already. Evi and I headed back home, while the rest continued spending all their money.
After one last game of Time’s Up I was so exhausted I couldn’t even think straight anymore, so I went to bed early.

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On Wednesday we got our hands dirty at school. Marij and I had our minds set on cleaning up the school library. We got about half of it done when school was out, so a pretty productive day. Continuing this tomorrow and hopefully have everything done then, so we can start using it next week.
We also went for another refreshing swim today and met two of Tineke and Sharon’s fellow student teachers (from The Netherlands). Two very cheerful and sociable girls who already invited us over to celebrate their birthdays with them.
We got hopelessly lost riding back home, but after about 15 minutes we came back near our starting point and Marijke and I took over pole positions to lead everyone home safely.
Once home I realised how very tired I was, so after unpacking my wet towels I went straight to bed.
Our second week is already halfway… time flies when you’re having fun!

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Last day of the school week for us already again. Marij and I finished the last bits of the cleaning up right before school was out. The entire library is now done and ready to be used again.
When everyone got home we had a quick lunch (bread again) and Sharon went to bed for a nap. Ellen and Evi have a carnival at their school tomorrow, so they spent some time making their improvised costumes (a flower girl and a butterfly).
A few of the house mates got ready to go out to Zus en Zo (a little pub/meeting place thing) while Evi and I stayed home to work for school (feeling a bit guilty about not having done a lot yet). But it paid off, I’m very proud to announce I have finished one of the assignments already! (this one’s due on Monday, so yay for me: I’m three days early!)