I'm going to try and do a few of these hour by hour logs of my days just to amuse myself. I also think it might help me note some things I might not otherwise think are remarkable enough to mention in the blog, but you might find interesting. Or it could be really boring.
26 August 2010
7:30 - Wake up sweaty. Brush teeth. Wash face. Shave. Retrieve dress shirt from clothesline outside. Get dressed in nice clothes (khakis and a button down). Sweat*.
8:00 - Go down to the multipurpose auditorium for breakfast. Scrambled eggs, bread, bacon, pineapple and papaya. Mmm. Sweat.
8:30 - Walk about 15 minutes to the nearby secondary school where we're doing our teaching practicum all week. Sweat.
9:00 - Class begins. Teaching the 4th form (10th grade) students about quadratic functions. They said they needed help with it, but in reality, they haven't even learned about it in the first place and also haven't really had linear equations. We find this out after the 3rd day of teaching about quadratics. No wonder they were struggling. Lesson goes ok. Sweat.
10:30 - Second class. Teaching the 5th form (11th grade), same lesson about quadratics. Observed by Ministry of Education Official. Students still struggling. Do activity where we drop a ball and use the time and equation of motion to estimate height (yay physics!). Observer says we need to work on our lesson planning and classroom presence. No surprises there. Nervous sweat.
12:00 - Walk back to teachers college for lunch. Sweat.
1:00 - Ministry observer presents to our class about Guyanese schools. Dress code, appropriate behavior, required paperwork, etc. Hot, tired and trying to stay awake. She goes on forever. Sweat.
4:00 - Discussion with WorldTeach security adviser, Kitty. He tells me that there is basically nothing to worry about in Anna Regina crime-wise. Least dangerous of any of the sites volunteers are going to. Also tells a story about how like 3 days ago he was near the market in Georgetown and some touristy white guy gets hit by a dude on a bicycle. The dude on the bicycle tries to grab the white guys stuff, pulls a gun, and somehow Kitty ends up between the white guy and the gun. He said he just stared at the guy and he backed down. Kitty is a badass. Less sweaty.
6:00 - Dinner in the auditorium. Fried dough and salt fish. Small portions for dinner in Guyana. Sweat.
7:30 - Take cab to Georgetown for trivia night at an expat bar. My group wins because we are mistakenly gifted 2 rounds where our score is doubled, rather than the usual 1 double round. No one says anything. The other WorldTeach team wins the "rum round," where the winner of the round gets a bottle of rum. Delicious rum (we won it the week before). Bar is air conditioned, but we sat outside. More sweat.
11:30 - Arrive home from bar. Shower in the dark (bathroom has lights, but they haven't worked since I've been there). Water is cold, but refreshing. Wash underwear in shower to keep laundry pile under control. Begin sweating immediately after stopping the water.
12:00 - Set mosquito net down over bed. Read a little using headlamp. Sweating profusely. Sleep.
*Old Spice Sweat Defense is awesome, btw.
Don't you have to become a badass if your name is Kitty?
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