Things are still good.

My Internet hasn't been working at site, but I wanted to briefly check in and let you all know I'm doing ok. The week before last I went to dar for the vac meeting, which was cool, but awkwardly timed, given that it was the first regular week of classes. I'm the new secretary, which is cool. I also got to give my suggestions of which grammar books they should give to the English teachers, which I was happy about. I've been saying they need to give us grammar books and dictionaries, and it's nice that they're trying to do that. While I was there I also picked up a couple of books on starting and managing libraries, which look super helpful. Plus dar is fun when there are other people there to hang out with. And while it's expensive, there is good food to be had. Like nachos, complete with corn chips. Back at site, I've been settling in to teaching again. Its pretty easy cuz the baseline book that they use for the form one orientation course is full of step by step lesson plans. And it's easy material. It is interesting though thinking about how English actually works. For example, last week I taught plural nouns. Why is it families and puppies and flies, but boys and toys? I told them if the letter before the y is a vowel, just go with the +s. Why is it knives and leaves and hooves but roofs doesn't get a +ves? This one I just have no idea about. This week also marked the first meeting of my life skills club. It feels a bit like a schoo assembly instead of a club (each form meets once a month, and all of the students in form one were there. I think it might be mandatory for them to go.) anyways, it's me and mr. Alex and ms. Njau, and I was really impressed with how mr. Alex led the main part of the lesson. I'm glad to be working with him. Anyways, I'm about to go watch the super bowl, which I basically don't care about, because its boring teams, and it's the middle of the night so i'll be tired tomorrow, but we made pizza (we're really good at making pizza) and have been playing games to keep us up. So it's not so bad, even though it does start at 2:30 am here.