The rest of the second week was somewhat less
chaotic. It was actually like a real
work week! Who knew?! I got tired of still waiting for a definitive
schedule and took matters in to my own hands and talked with another professor
about moving his class and filled in some of the turmas’ free periods with
either my bio lessons or TICs lessons.
Mom, guess you’re right! Slowly I
am taking over! But I think professors
changing their own schedules around is pretty common here, who I was to think
that the administrative people would do it I guess…
So I had another TICs lesson, where I learned from
previous aulas that it is much better to teach them something (today, how to
turn on and off the computer) and then let them enter the computer room
after. An interesting method I may continue
to employ in future lessons.
My biology classes today could not have gone any
better! Introducing the concepts of
taxonomy, I presented a song to the tune of “Mary had a little lamb” about the
order of taxonomic categories (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,
species, but in Portuguese). The
students applauded afterward, so I guess that means they liked the song! Hopefully they will actually remember something
from the lesson! (They even remembered
the song the following week!)
On the two mile walk back, I took the opportunity
to learn a little of the local language, Macua.
Some of my students walking with me a taught me a few words after I
explained that I only knew two, how are you (“ehali”) and I am well
(“salama”). Now I can also count to ten
and ask how much does it cost! Slowly
but surely!
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