Today he taught a very riveting English class. It was nice to have someone else teach and also a little bit entertaining. Seven of eight boys from the dorm were there(ages 13-16) and Bertino who is one of the children's pastors and 23 years old.
He knows a decent amount of English and is always excited to use it. He kept challenging the boys: "memoration"--he wanted them to memorize the vocabulary words. And said tomorrow was "revision"--meaning we will review tomorrow. We started with days of the week and then switched to parts of the body. Midway through his lesson he said "I have two songs." He proceeded to sing "ten fingers, ten toes, two ears and one nose" and then some song which we don't really know what it was... But it didn't include any English words that I know. We finished with learning some fruits and vegetables and he said he loved to eat rice and a little bit of potatoes and to drink fanta. It sounds simple but that's actually an uncommon meal for them. They usually eat shemah(warm cornmeal mush) and beans and mostly they don't eat more than two meals a day.
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