Fifth Blog

Monday was a good day, as we have finalized our class lists and students are showing up regularly to their respective classes. I was amazed how well they all responded to the task at hand and how enthused they were about learning newer materials. As for the weather, it was grey day. It rained for most of the day and that creates such mess due to sticky mud. After work I went for a bit of fishing hoping to continue Sunday's good fortune. But unfortunately things turned quite the opposite. First of all it was raining when I headed out. Secondly as I walked down the the slope to the river bank, I noticed a young man of either late teens or early twenties was sniffing some substance from a plastic bag. I had to walk right by him to the water. I said hi, but he was too dazed to respond. He looked right through me. I started casting, and he kept gazing at me bewildered and confused. He then started running back and forth while throwing punches in the air. Blues Eyes, the dog with me, reacted very defensively charging within a feet of him while barking and growling. I had never seen her so angry, serious and scared at the same time. I tried to calm her down but it wasn't working. Realizing a possible fish was not worth risking a conflict I returned home. A very long evening!

Tuesday was even a better day of teaching. Not only the exchange of ideas were abundant they were also helping each other which is my ultimate goal. I hope I can continue like this for most of the year. It is a pleasure to see them so seriously at work, and enjoying it. I didn't have to do much but to run around and answer their questions once in a while.The best part was that they sometimes would go to the board and do the problems voluntarily. After school a few of them stayed in my class finishing off assignments, playing video games, and watching movie on the computer. Today was truly a great day to be a teacher! I have a photo of them in the class which I hope to upload here soon.

After school liaison

I headed to the river for a bit of fresh air and to fish of course. It was a cold day but at least it wasn't raining as much. It wasnt a productive day in terms of catch; I only caught a medium size Northern Pike which i released back to the river. There were a few kids hanging out there and would get so excited every time they would hear the geese flying overhead migrating south. I guess winter cant be far off as there were thousands of geese flying very high overhead with surprisingly loud calls. Kids would imitate their elders by calling back at geese in hope of luring them to lower heights so they could shoot them (toy guns of course).

Kids trying to shoot down geese migrating south