Bye bye preschool

Today was our last day at the school. I'm gonna miss those little preschoolers. It was also cool because all the younger kids on the trip were broken into teams of two and taught a lesson plan to a class. It was cool to walk around and see them do this because as an education major, I could tell who should be a teacher. This one freshman girl was so amazing at being in front of the class and you could tell the kids loved what she had to say. That was really cool for me to see being older then them and also being a future teacher. After the students left school for the day we were invited to eat lunch with the teachers. Everyday the school provides both breakfast and lunch for the teachers. It was really neat getting to sit there with the teachers and eat lunch with them. They went around and introduced themselves and then said why they became a teacher. It was really cool to hear their answers because each and every one of them wanted to become a teacher because they love kids and want to teach them and help them. Many even said that they believe teaching is their passion. I thought that was awesome because in the US you find so many teachers who don't love teaching or don't really like kids or just teach because there's nothing else for them to do and they need the money. And that's insane to me. But it was amazing to hear that every one of them loved teaching and it was their passion. In the US our schools are so much more advanced, but the passion for teaching in these small run down schools in Rwanda is so much greater. After that the kids in the group left and mr fletcher and ms alper and I stayed with the teachers to talk about teaching there versus in back home. It was really cool hearing two of my old teachers talk about why they love what they do. It's not everyday you hear someone say they love their job where we are from, so hearing them say why they love theirs was really special. We left the school and came back to the hotel to go grocery shopping for food to make sandwiches for tomorrow because tomorrow we are taking the three hour drive to see the gorillas. We went to dinner at some pizza place. It's funny because the service takes so long here. We leave for dinner at 5:30 and don't get our food until 7:30 or 8:00 most nights. If not later. It's cool though because no one is freaking out at the waiter to hurry up. It's all just very relaxed. Rwanda time. We have to wake up at 3:30 am tomorrow to go gorilla watching because we need to be on the road at 4 in order to get there in time. It's a three hour drive and then a hike for who knows how long until we find the gorillas. I'm really excited though but need to sleep so I Wong be a zombie tomorrow and get gorilla attacked. So because of the time difference when I wake up at 3:30 tomorrow morning it will still only be 9:30 at night back in Ct. Hahah. Ok I'll tell you all about it tomorrow. Xo!