Day 3? wait now I'm confused how long have I been in India?

I now feels like a second or third home. Not like a vacation home but like a "I love these kids so much, we must be related sort of home." Yesterday (its now Thursday Morning 7:30am) I was on tutoring duty. I was super excited, and a little nervous. Because the night before's math didn't go over so great. But we were focusing on reading today. Most if not all the children's reading skills are several grades below what they should be. But hello...this is their second language and they don't have people constantly speaking and reading to them. I think back to when I'm home with Bridger, he gets so much one on one time. And has picked up speaking very quickly. But these children only get the one on one attention they seek out from the volunteers. The Assistance Principle of the school was telling us all about this, and mentioned that the students that speak better, and read better are the students that are more outgoing and hang on the volunteers. So they also encourage us to speak to as many children as we can, and to go seek out those who are playing by themselves.
So for tutoring we had 20 minutes one on one sessions with the children. Which only allows for 6 per person in a school day. But because there were also 6-7 of us volunteers we were able to read with lots of children. And there will be another group tomorrow. It's so nice to feel needed. And so awesome to have a child learn something from you.
Its difficult teaching them to read because they haven't been taught to sound things out, they spell out the word like C A T and then say Cat. Instead of using the sounds the letters make. So I would sounds something out for them, and they would just laugh because they didn't really know what I was doing. haha It's fine.
Play time was so much fun yesterday. We played chase, and then we played a little house, and then I took like a thousand picture of these boys jumping off of different things. It was great.
Well off to another wonderful day in India.
Today will be filled with sweat, and manual labor. Can't wait to haul Bricks!



xoxo
Martha