Aug 25 (Green Eggs and Ham)

It has been 9 days since I arrived and I think that I am just now beginning to get used to my new life here. I can get around mostly on my own and this week we actually have somewhat of a schedule. One of my main responsibilities here will be to tutor some of the Lighthouse and Kroo Bay kids. School doesn't start for another couple of weeks here so we have been playing games or reading with them. The Lighthouse boys are older (15-22) but reading and writing in English is a struggle for them. I am amazed and humbled at these boys desire to learn.

The first day (Monday/yesterday), my friend Alimome, who is 22, asked if I would read with him and he pulled out this book that looks like it had washed up on the beach with all the other trash. When I opened it I almost laughed out loud! It was a book published in the 1920's in England and the title was something about how to make a happy home for the newly married or those about to get married. :) We do have other books for the boys to read but he wanted to read that one because he had borrowed it from a friend and was the only English (albeit British English) that he had. We slugged through words like ne'er, o'er, and efface for about an hour. He would ask me the meaning of some words that I didn't even know myself. Life is just funny sometimes. :)

Today I began to teach some of them how to juggle, had a business consultation/conversation with one of the boys name David who is a tailor by trade, and read Dr. Suess's Green Eggs and Ham with my friend Morris who is probably around 18. Ha, I'm sure that was a funny sight but these boys are so eager to learn they want to read anything and everything. I am really excited about continuing to get to know these kids and working with them.

Once school starts some Kroo Bay kids will also start coming who are younger. Yesterday, Steph kind of chuckled and said I was already assigned an 11 year old boy named Remi who apparantly has severe ADD or ADHD. Haha that is going to be an experience for sure! It's going to take a lot of prayer and creativity to work through ADD, a foreign language, and culture barriers. :) I'm excited about the challenge though.