Rain is over, summer's here

Nancy, one of the other interns, has finally made it to Delhi so I'm no longer all alone. She got in last night at around 1:00 am and I couldn't stop talking her ear off because it had been so long since I had talked to someone in the evening! I was starting to feel really lame with how dull my evenings were....me, on the couch watching crappy shows on the Hallmark Channel. Lame.

I also met a new friend I like to call Mr. Cockroach in the bathroom. As some of you may recall, the first experience that I ever had with cockroaches was in my apartment, the Palladio my sophomore year. It involved some hysterics and calling my mom at 3:00 in the morning to hyperventilate. My second experience was somewhat similar, only 20x more embarrassing, because it was in my homestay in Rwanda and I felt like that stupid ass American who gets freaked out by a bug. I have to admit, I held it together quite a bit better this time when I opened the door to the bathroom to discover a cockroach about the size of half of my palm sitting there looking up at me. I swear he was thinking "get over it little Missy, I plan on staying here for a LONG time, and there isn't anything you can do about it." I merely cursed about 92 times, turned on the light in the bathroom and closed the door. Never in my life have I been more thrilled about having two bathrooms in my apartment. I also gave Mr. Cockroach a warning that he has until Sunday when Johnny (the male intern) comes and kills him.

Today was great. I woke up, ate breakfast, and went to work. I spent some time working on my presentation and most of the time in the classroom helping a couple kids with their reading. There are so many suggestions that I have to make the classroom run more efficiently. I think my experience working in my mom's classroom for my whole life will help me tremendously here. First, there were about 40 kids in the class today ranging in ages 3-16 in ONE ROOM. Talk about chaos! So, I suggested that since everyone was doing something different at all times that they split the classroom up into different sections. This was easy to do with the new tall bookshelves. Now, the one giant room is two normal sized rooms. Also, some kids seemed to be falling so far behind their peers, likely due to a lack of personal attention both in the classroom and at home. I suggested that I take a few kids at a time up in the office to work on vocab and numbers. That way, they can focus in a quiet environment. Tomorrow we are going to a wholesale market to get some school supplies. They are in such great need for pencils and paper I can hardly stand it.

I'm signing off for now. Peace.