Thursday, September 25, 2008

Let's see... Yesterday, very few kids were in class because they have exams this week in their other school. Basically same story today. We did the usual order of operations, flash cards and story problems.
I've been spending a fair amount of my time reading The Book Theif, which I like so far. Its written in a very interesting way.
I've also begun working on trying to learn Bengali. I spent a few hours on it today and yesterday. So far I can read and write Bengali r, l, m, n, b, u, i, and a. That doesn't sound very impressive, but learning the letters, which look nothing like the alphabet, is difficult. I'm picking up a little vocab too. For instance, ma is mother, and am is mango. I can write both of those in Bengali too. It'll be a slow process, but hopefully I'll get to the point where I can get my point across and generally understand people when they talk to me.
Today and yesterday one kid came for computer class. (This is progress, as its the first time anyone has come at all on Wed or Thurs) Yesterday Suraj came and today Prativa came. The computer is acting up again, so I had them read out loud and then we played a game. Suraj and I played bingo, and I attempted to teach Prative speed. I somehow convinced myself that speed would be a simple game to teach. Wrong. She was gracious about it though, and pretended she was interested. Cards just aren't the thing here. Oh well.
Last night Jen, Trina and I went to the Penguine Inn for dinner (Khardah's only sit down restaraunt, as far as I can tell), which is why I didn't write. It was pretty delicious.
I think I may be getting a cold, which I am NOT happy about.
I think thats pretty much it on the news.

~m

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