Salama.

Okay, so I'm pretty sure I was born to do this. I basically cannot believe that I am here and living out this dream!! Today was a great day. The new volunteers came to placement today!! I had Katyann and Hannah with me and the kids sang them some songs and we worked on math today. After Math we had Kiswahili and then we played a lot of fun games for breaky time. (I thought saying breaky was appropriate since I'm becoming a Tanzanian). Games were fun, as always and I was so happy to hear that both Hannah and Katyann had an amazing time at placement. They are great girls and since Katyann is here for 8 weeks I'm positive we'll become tigga tight :).

Octavio and I made a weekly schedule today as well. This was exciting for him...he really wanted to make it so I was glad to help him out with it. He is such a great volunteer and a great friend - he is great with the kids, passionate about learning and excited about helping the volunteers from CCS! I also got a really cute dress from Unique!! Woohoo!

I decided to create individual profiles for each of my kids. This will consist of a standardized test that I give to the whole class and also tests that will assess each of the kids' individual skills in Math and English. I plan to create three separate tests that will challenge each level of understanding that exists in my classroom and then add a picture and a chart that is used to keep track of progress as well. These profiles will be really useful for the school and for the future volunteers at Faraja.

Last  but not least we went out for Corinne's last night tonight. :( She is such a loving and wonderufl person and friend, and I just can't believe she's leaving! Though I don't want to say goodbye to Corinne hanging out at Kool Bar was really fun! We brought a ton of the new volunteers with us and we all crammed into Mussa's car on the way there! The new volunteers all had a lot of fun and we were home by curfew - so no worries there. I loved having them there and even though we waited for our Africa theme song for a million years I got to jam to it 5 times when I got home...so it's okay.

Now I am about to lala salama so I can get up for placement tomorrow!! I will write more intelligent and in-depth things tomorrow. As always, I love Africa.