At the end of another Saturday I am exhausted. I don't know how Scott keeps going - teaching, driving, teaching, carrying keyboards all over creation (well not quite). Our classes in the morning and early afternoon in the Los Americas Stake were good. Some had been able to practice and all were doing well with their learning for the week. The pregnant woman in the Los Molinos Ward was not there. They said she had her baby and her mother was home tending the kids. We thought she was expecting twins - but one of the women there said she only had one baby girl. Que sera sera.
Who really knows what goes on here ! The attention span of most of the students leaves alot to be desired. It has been great to get to know so many of the people. They are so grateful to have the opportunity to learn to play. I just wish there was a way to make sure their bishops used them in their wards but we are not to contact the bishops to let them know there are people in their wards that can play. It gets pretty frustrating!
One thing that makes it all worth it are students like this young boy who is so bright
Doesn't look like it though! He has a brother in the class and they have a teclada at home to practice on - which is unusual here.
Hainamos was a better experience today. We had cancelled the 3:30 lesson until we found out what the stake president wanted to do about all of the nonmembers and if the power would actually be on for our lessons. When Scott called him he didn't want us to cancel today's lessons. Well we already had but we went anyway. Three new students came and two old ones - all members. Scott's patience with this whole "groundhog day" teaching with this Hainamos group had completely left. After 45 minutes and conversations with many different people he decided to start from the beginning again with this group.
Aren't they cute?
Who really knows what goes on here ! The attention span of most of the students leaves alot to be desired. It has been great to get to know so many of the people. They are so grateful to have the opportunity to learn to play. I just wish there was a way to make sure their bishops used them in their wards but we are not to contact the bishops to let them know there are people in their wards that can play. It gets pretty frustrating!
One thing that makes it all worth it are students like this young boy who is so bright
Hainamos was a better experience today. We had cancelled the 3:30 lesson until we found out what the stake president wanted to do about all of the nonmembers and if the power would actually be on for our lessons. When Scott called him he didn't want us to cancel today's lessons. Well we already had but we went anyway. Three new students came and two old ones - all members. Scott's patience with this whole "groundhog day" teaching with this Hainamos group had completely left. After 45 minutes and conversations with many different people he decided to start from the beginning again with this group.
Aren't they cute?
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These two added alot of personality to the class. After this class Anderson and the twins showed up for their lesson which we haven't had the electricity to have for the past month. We were surprised to see them but it was a great opportunity to work with just them. We actually got to drive most of the way home in the light of day. That is such a nice thing on the road to Hainamosa there are so many crazy things going on and so many people walking across the highway, cars and motorcycles without lights, etc. And so here we are at 8:00pm home at last. Only ten hours after we left this morning.
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