Well currently very angry because I just wrote my entire blog which took me an hour and it all deleted, so I am sorry if this one is short and not very detailed. Basically, this morning went the same as always... snoozed my 4:25 AM, 4:40 AM, and 4:45 AM aerobics alarms and woke up at 6 AM. I got ready headed to breakfast and helped set up. I sat with the same little boy who is 5 years old and is the cutest little thing. His name is Simian, but we refer to him as "the little jumping bean" because when we jump rope he just constantly jumps and somehow always makes it over the rope. When I sit with him he always scarfs down his meal, so I always end up giving him all of mine. After breakfast, we quickly cleaned up and then headed to the bus stop with the kids. Before they can leave to catch the bus they have a backpack check, so they don't take any toys or anything they're not supposed to take to school. After we walked them to the bus we headed to the daycare to play with the kids. This usually consists of me passing a toy car 4 feet away from a little boy for a couple minutes until 5 other boys want to pass one too and then the circle expands. I am then stuck with 6 toy cars in my hands trying to figure out which boy goes with what car to avoid any sort of fighting or crying. Then after a couple minutes of that Gloria sneaks behind me and pulls my pony tail and then runs over to the book case and starts tearing all of the pages out of the books. "NO GLORIA" has now become a familiar and frequent saying at the daycare. When it is time to walk the kids to preschool (across the room), I then left and went to go help the caretakers with all of the children's laundry. We spent about two hours cleaning the clothes and then hanging them on the clotheslines. When the laundry was done, Devyn and I left for lunch.
Devyn and I decided to treat ourselves to a nice lunch considering we had not eaten a full meal in a couple of days. We went to the local Chinese restaurant with the Wafi who is the security guard/cook/handyman/aerobics instructor/body builder/the everything/the party (which he calls himself). After lunch we went to the supermarket and bought a few things and returned back home in time to go to the next shift of kids at the preschool. When I first arrived at the preschool I taught the kids the ABC's. I was handed a stack worksheets that the teacher had to hand write for the kids and helped them one by one fill it out. They each had to match certain capital letters with their corresponding lowercase letters on the right. What I learned is that a lot of them get their "b's" and "d's" mixed up. Even the teacher had Db and Bb on the worksheet. After we finished the worksheets I read to the kids and then their parents came and got them. This was around 3 and this was also when the kids arrived form school. I played PIG with the 16 and 17 year old boys until we go too hot and sat down. When the other kids arrived, I helped the same two boys with their homework. Kyron and Asher are in the same class and they are learning about commas. We went into the library and I had to come up with 20 sentences with them with commas for their homework. It was actually very difficult. After this we sat and talked to the kids for a while until dinner time. We helped set up for dinner and talked to them while they ate. At dinner a very interesting and unexpected thing happened. One of the caretakers came into the dining room/kitchen and said the big girls and little girls are on lockdown. At this moment, all of the girls started screaming in Creole and I had no idea what they were saying. I was sitting next to Delroy and he was explaining it to me as everything was going on. I really don't understand why I do not understand Creole because it is basically English except they use their accent and some of the words are different. Anyway, the girls being on lockdown is a punishment because two of the caregivers were missing money and they were in the girls rooms. Therefore, they know one of the girls stole their money and they would be locked in their little hut except for meals all of tomorrow. Immediately two girls ran out and searched their room to try to figure out who did it. Since they had suspicion because a girl was known for stealing, they checked her bag first. They opened a book and immediately money fell out of it. They ran into the kitchen screaming of joy and told their caretaker. All of the girls were screaming in joy because they were no longer on lockdown; however, the girl who was caught stealing is in a lot of trouble. After being in the middle of all the fighting I quickly left and found Devyn to head back in. We said goodnight to everyone outside and went in to eat our dinner (leftover lunch) and talked to our family/friends. I know that I am really going to miss these kids because I have already gotten so close to most of them. It is sad to think about their situations, especially when they start to say things about their lives. They are all so friendly and love to have us around to talk. I am so happy I am here and I really do not want to leave.
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