Blog Number 6
January 24th



SO, Jenny is officially gone and we still havn’t heard from her. Many of the teachers asked to see if she made it home, so I will just have to update them when we hear. Tonight was the second Ghanaian match. They played Namibia and were suppose to win by like 6 goals, but only got one.
Life without Jenny here is different, but just fine. It is much quieter at night when I go back to my room, but I just turn on some music and have a little dance party and then I am fine. Each night this week there have been two different football matches on with the second one ending at a little after 9, so I have been going to bed pretty much after that. The night after Jenny left I ended up changing the room around a bit to make it more mine. I pushed the two beds together so now it is like sleeping on my big bed at home (but not as fluffy.)

Teaching this week has been fine. I am struggling a bit with the classroom management, and have tried many different techniques in order to keep the class quieter. Finally I think I have something that works pretty well. I have given the class a strike system. At the beginning of each period I teach I put a number on the board (generally 4 or 5, but depending on how they were the last time I teach, I will adjust the number) Then, at any time during the class that I feel they are not listening, or they are not respecting me while I teach, or if the room is getting too loud I will just take away one of the strikes. I told them that if we got down to 0 they would have to work silently on an exercise that I come up with and that we wouldn’t be able to keep doing the other, more fun activities that I have planned.
Also, I assigned work last Wednesday for this Wednesday and when I collected it, there were 15 student in one class and 12 in the other that did not have the work done. I gave them another assignment for Friday so hopefully I will get a better response.

This weekend I think we have a pretty low key weekend. Ghana doesn’t play again till Monday but that will be a very big game. Nigeria plays tomorrow night so that will be fun to watch. Originally we were going to go to the village this weekend for Jenny to be able to see their home in the village but I think that we might just be staying around, which I am gladly accepting because I can catch up on some sleep and just relax!!

Well this is just a short post, but the rest have been so long, so I am sure that you welcome it!!

This weekend I will be thinking about Big Brothers Big Sisters as they have a huge fundraising event on Saturday, so BEST OF LUCK GIRLS!!

Much Love!
☺ Chelsea ☺