Ala sani boun (Everything's good)

My Taki-Taki is progressing slowly and my Monday morning French class takes great pleasure in teaching me new things and laughing at my pronunciation.
Teaching a language makes you realize all the things in it that just don't make sense and in French, there are tons. I wish I could explain why the "c" in French is pronounced a certain way with certain letters but I can't! I have tell them "just because"... it's not very helpful.
My afternoon children's class went marvelously and in the evening I had my second class with a wonderful group of four girls. They all have extreme reading difficulties so we move VERY slowly but they are so dedicated and persevere with extreme courage. To see them work so hard is what gives me the patience to read one sentence in 5 minutes.


Aren't they beautiful!


Today we had our usual long morning work session over God-given French coffee. At 4 I headed off to my massive and insane Tuesday children's class. It was a little less chaotic than last week but still very difficult to manage. One of the greatest problems lies in the fact that there are so many toddlers who accompany their older siblings to the class. There is no one at home to take care of them and I don't want to penalize the older ones by telling them to leave. Once again, a dilemma!
The Tiger-Butterflies (Tuesday's junior youth group) have sorted some of their problems out but it was a strange atmosphere. I can't put my finger on it. It's such a great group of youth but society and its never-failing negative influence strikes again!

Lesson Learned:
Lying never gets you anywhere.