Lilian then go up to the learning center. She normally has from 30 minutes to an hour to prepare for the day. She cleans and works on lessons mostly. We are hoping that as time goes on we can break her loose for a couple of hours to work on learning as well. It is much easier to teach computers if you are proficient in how they work and know what is going on.
Soon the students start coming. Every day is different as different people come as their schedules allow. The normal is to have 4 to 10 student in the morning. Most of these are adults as the kids are in school. Lilian teaches an adult reading class, and tutors anyone who comes in between times. This last week has been different as school has closed for the younger grades. The oldest grade is taking a placement test for High School and no disturbances are allowed. That means that we might have 10 or even 15 students studying at the learning center. The computers are humming and people are standing in line for materials.
Lilian takes off at noon for lunch and comes back at 2 o'clock. At 2:30 the junior primary show up for activities and games. At 4:00 the senior primaries grades are welcomed. Yesterday that was light as some of them were guarding cows and others were at school testing. On Wednesday we have boys and girls together and schedule a learning activity. This Wednesday Tanya taught the lesson and did her biology experiment, dissecting a frog. Amidst many gasps and groans, she pointed out the points in the lesson. Where the heart, lungs, liver, muscles, and bone structure look like.
We laughed as these people who think nothing of butchering a live cow or sheep were grossed out by a dead, dried frog. Although there were many comments the kids LOVED it. Their drawings on the frog were first rate and they have been exposed to a little bit more of learning.
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