Thursday. Focusing on classes

Today I will focus on our classes. We eat all our meals together, which gives us time to practice our English. We have three classes each weekday -- 9:00-10:30, 11:00-11:30, and 3:00-4:30. By the end of the day I am exhausted! We start the first class with something from that day's Gospel. We have heard it already at Mass, in Kiswahili, of course. Then we have a vocabulary or grammar lesson. For the second class, we start with a poem or saying from our Founders, and then we are divided into ability groups and work from the textbooks. The third class starts with a song and then we read and discuss something from the Reader or from the books we brought. They are working hard and everyone is speaking and writing something in English. The pictures show our groups during our second lesson.

S. Amani and her advanced group

Sue and her small group of beginners