Wednesday's class
Thursday's class
It has been a busy week with three new classes to teach. Wednesday, the 23rd, was our first day at the Institute with our 10:00am class. They had five students registered but eleven showed up. It will be fun working with these kids. On Thursday our 3:00 our class consisted of about twenty. Isn't life strange? Who would have thought we would be anywhere teaching music! Scott has become very good at teaching music. I am just fairly good at communicating in Spanish so I can help. Most of the Institute kids speak quite a bit of English but Scott keeps telling them to talk to me in Espanol. I know that is best but it gets quite frustrating at times!!On Friday we had our two Espanol clases. Elder Marino is teaching in Elder Hammon's place. His wife is the mental health person here and this gives him something to do. I think it will be good. Then Scott is supposed to teach the grammar part of the language. Elder Marino learned to speak on two different Spanish speaking missions but says he has never learned the correct grammer. You would think with all of these classes we would be pretty good by now - but not good enough to understand much of what these people say!
This morning we left at 9:00 am for music lesson at the Caleto Ward in Las Americas. We had met with them the week before the kids came. There were three new students and one old one that didn't come.
The counselor in the Stake Presidency that is over the music is such a great guy. He is a taxi driver here so you know he has to be a quick thinker! He had scheduled us for lesson in the Moleno Ward eight or so miles away so he led us there and stayed to get things going for us. This is a different looking church but has nice big rooms inside. There were about ten signed up for the class here.
After these two lessons we just had time to drive home, get some lunch and head out to Hainamosa for our lesson there. We had missed last week and when we got there three people we had never seen and the baseball player who was just baptized came. Only Felix of our regular students showed up for some time, then Anderson and Soriano came. Apparently they had announced in some of their wards that we were starting a new class today - just hadn't mentioned it to us. Such a Dominican way to do things.... So I worked with the baseball player, Felix, Soriano, and Anderson while Scott started in the conducting book with the three new students. By next week there will probably be ten more. We just have to laugh at life here - it is never what you expect! How blessed we have been to be in this beautiful country with so many wonderful people......
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