(previous week)
...2 girls gave me rings to wear!
...my first graders who were being very rambunctious (always the polite way to describe what you all know what I really mean) later all apologized to me during class later that day, with hugs.
...(while I was helping a teacher with her class) watching an anime version of snow white, dubbed over in spanish, as the students all moved their chairs to the back of the classroom where I was sitting. We were all snuggled up, it was such a precious moment.
...dancing for 40 minutes with the students and taking the last 5 minutes to teach dancing and body words in spanish (I love finding out what the teacher has planned...)
...having a surprise birthday, where the class president cried as she walked in to her mom and all of us singing with balloons and streamers. Possibly their best part was their rendition of "habby bird-dea" in English. They were all looking at me excited, and I was singing too, and then I messed up, because they sang it differently!
(this past week)
...teaching my students "head, shoulders, knees, toes" whoever made up that song is genius...it perfectly shows the beauty in simplicity. I don't think I have ever seen so many kids so joyful and laughing so hard about something they are learning. The best was when some of them where falling over and there were piles of kids dying from laughter. Fire code much?...but we're in Ecuador!
...the moment where it was silent (for once) as I was writing something on the board and one boy awkwardly starts humming and singing nonsense words to the melody of "head, shoulders..." I could not contain that laugher...ya know sometimes you just got to let it out, can't pretend to think these moments aren't hilarious just because they are kids and we are adults.
...the many moments when my students repeat a side joke of mine or a question I'm asking them, and especially when they imitate me, I love learning to laugh at (not with, at) myself.
...the one girl who peaks in the office every day during our meeting/pancito&cafecito break and smiles shyly at me, while the other teachers just look.
...the moments where the students stand outside with me, not letting me get to the meeting, because they have so many questions to ask, and so many hugs to share.
...when the fourth grade teacher heard what I said about one more week, and repeated everything I had said again to the class because she was realizing that I really will be leaving. :(
...when a fellow teacher was talking to me and asking me if I have cuencano friends, one of my students who was standing near by goes, "Somos"(as he looked a little shy with a comforting smile). He was saying we are friends :) they really are my friends, I love my students so much!! (just because they whine about learning more letters in the alphabet, doesn't mean they don't like you!!)
...and everyday this week, walking away hearing the students yell "bye teacher" and "chao señorita," I wish it could be just chao and not adios.
With my second "B" graders :)
(the one with his bad to the camera in white is the one who said they're my friends)
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