Classes at the Home of Affection

5 February 2007
We visited the Baby Orphanage in the morning and that went well. Stuart stayed home with a sore throat, so I tried to fill in a bit doing the physical play--running around with kids on my back, etc. It was pretty fun and it's nice that the kids are finally starting to like me. Today they actually blew me kisses goodbye. Just a couple of them, but it was really sweet. Made me feel like I'm getting somewhere with them. The beginning with them was so awful--just chaotic and mean. Now they are much better. Thank goodness because I was really worried about being here for two months and now I know it will be okay and go fast anyway. We only have just over two weeks of classes. Okay, so i counted and there's only 11 days of teaching this whole month. That's crazy! Well, I can do that. We have 15-25 February with no work because of the Tet holiday.

So the afternoon class at the Home of Affection went pretty well. I have four kids--Son, Huy, Trinh and Thao. Thao is a bright girl, but with a rebellious streak in her. The boys are pretty nice, but Huy is my favorite. He always tries hard to do what I want him to. Very cute. They all are a bit ornery, but not too bad now. Thank goodness. It was so hard for a while.