February 8, 2016

Back to School.  Dwaine and I had visited with Iris, Arnoldo’s English teacher, last week.  We had wanted to sit through one class so that when we start volunteeringin the school we will have an idea what she is covering.  It was an experience.  First, there are 50 students in the small classroom.  Wow.  She was covering simple present tense, followed by a complement.  She used pronouns for verb agreement.  She went through several examples where students went to the board to write the answers.  The format of the class was fine, but with so many students, she was only able to cover about 12 sentences in the 1 hour 35 minute class.  After the class, Iris came over and looked at the English material that we had.  We decided that we would work on possessive pronouns and likes and dislikes.  We will teach vocabulary for Iris.  She will come over for an hour after class.  We are hoping to open the door for ‘the younger generation.’  We are planning a movie, Facing the Giants, for the 13^th in Salcoatitan and on the 20^th for Juayua.  Iris said she would ask the director if we could offer tickets to her students.  The event will be in our home, so it won’t be at the school.  But we still wanted his permission.  We had done the summer English course in the school, so we have worked with the director previously.  She left about 1 and we ate lunch and rested a few minutes.  Dwaine left to pick Regina up at 3:30 to take her to the doctor in Apaneca.  For me, Eliza came over to work on Sunday school curriculum.  She stayed until about 6:30 and Dwaine did not get home from taking Regina to the doctor until 7.  With that, we ate a late dinner and then worked on lessons for a bit and skyped.