Here it is Wednesday evening - didn't blog yesterday so will try to catch up. Won't be hard!
We went to the temple Tuesday morning. We had planned on doing the 10:00 session but ended up waiting until 10:45 for a couple that were doing their own endowments and getting married today.
I did have the afternoon to get some things done and to study before our lesson at Santo Domingo. You never know just who will show up but this week most of the class came and we didn't have enough tecladas. We are going to have to gather up all of the keyboards we can find for some of these new classes that have so many students. In our other classes people drop out when they find that it really is work to learn how to play the keyboard. I am sure that will happen but it still leaves more people than we have keyboards for. Guess we will have to use some paper tecladas.
We did get an email from the US Embassy saying not to go around the college that there had been demonstrations at because a policeman had been killed there. That is the college right across from the Institute where we teach. The demonstrations were on the street that we take around the college to get home. They closed the college for yesterday and today so we thought we would not have any students show up but went down anyway. The Institute director told us that there were some students there and he thought we would be safe. So we got there and set everything up and one student came to class. Scott spend 1 1/2 hours just working with him so that was a great opportunity to really work with someone.
We picked up the Leavitts and headed out to Los Llanos. There was a good rainstorm going on that stopped when we got there and started up again once we began class. It is uncanny how often if has rained all the way to the building and as soon as we get there and start to unload it quits raining. Then we start the lessons and it rains off and on the whole time until we are ready to leave and it quits. What tender mercies!
I have never seen much of Scott's silly side - but you should see him teach music! He could be the entertainer instead of the teacher. He keeps everyone engaged in what he is teaching and really does a great job. We got to our class at Las Caobas a few minutes late but the room soon filled with people. One thing they have taught their kids here is respect for their elders. We never go anywhere that someone doesn't offer to help us carry things in or out or do anything else you ask them to do - an it is often the kids. We pull up to the church and the kids surround the car and want to introduce themselves to you and know all about you. As I sat in the car waiting for Scott to leave there were a group of people sitting in plastic chairs (of course) by the church. Just visiting and laughing. I thought of how guilty I have felt about wasting time when I have taken time to do that - no more.
It is ridiculous that we feel we have to fill every second with something that needs to be done. We put so much pressure on ourselves. When you see how happy these people are you realize that their way of life isn't all that bad.
We got home around 9:00pm and left this morning at 9:30 am so it has been a long day. Seems to be lots of those these days.
We went to the temple Tuesday morning. We had planned on doing the 10:00 session but ended up waiting until 10:45 for a couple that were doing their own endowments and getting married today.
I did have the afternoon to get some things done and to study before our lesson at Santo Domingo. You never know just who will show up but this week most of the class came and we didn't have enough tecladas. We are going to have to gather up all of the keyboards we can find for some of these new classes that have so many students. In our other classes people drop out when they find that it really is work to learn how to play the keyboard. I am sure that will happen but it still leaves more people than we have keyboards for. Guess we will have to use some paper tecladas.
We did get an email from the US Embassy saying not to go around the college that there had been demonstrations at because a policeman had been killed there. That is the college right across from the Institute where we teach. The demonstrations were on the street that we take around the college to get home. They closed the college for yesterday and today so we thought we would not have any students show up but went down anyway. The Institute director told us that there were some students there and he thought we would be safe. So we got there and set everything up and one student came to class. Scott spend 1 1/2 hours just working with him so that was a great opportunity to really work with someone.
We picked up the Leavitts and headed out to Los Llanos. There was a good rainstorm going on that stopped when we got there and started up again once we began class. It is uncanny how often if has rained all the way to the building and as soon as we get there and start to unload it quits raining. Then we start the lessons and it rains off and on the whole time until we are ready to leave and it quits. What tender mercies!
I have never seen much of Scott's silly side - but you should see him teach music! He could be the entertainer instead of the teacher. He keeps everyone engaged in what he is teaching and really does a great job. We got to our class at Las Caobas a few minutes late but the room soon filled with people. One thing they have taught their kids here is respect for their elders. We never go anywhere that someone doesn't offer to help us carry things in or out or do anything else you ask them to do - an it is often the kids. We pull up to the church and the kids surround the car and want to introduce themselves to you and know all about you. As I sat in the car waiting for Scott to leave there were a group of people sitting in plastic chairs (of course) by the church. Just visiting and laughing. I thought of how guilty I have felt about wasting time when I have taken time to do that - no more.
It is ridiculous that we feel we have to fill every second with something that needs to be done. We put so much pressure on ourselves. When you see how happy these people are you realize that their way of life isn't all that bad.
We got home around 9:00pm and left this morning at 9:30 am so it has been a long day. Seems to be lots of those these days.
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