Swimming Lessons at School?

Almost every primary school here has a swimming pool. And everyone takes swimming lessons three times a week! How fun is that? After our first swim day, Jess and I asked one of the teachers if it would be helpful if we got in the pool to help. She loved the idea because obviously it’s easier to teach swimming if you’re actually in the pool. The main teachers aren’t allowed in so that they can keep better watch over the whole class. So, today we got in, even though it was a rainy, overcast day, and tried our best to straighten kicking legs and help them blow bubbles. Haha. For the first half of kids, we helped Jenny Jones (Jess’ mentor teacher), but for the second half she left us on our own with the younger kids. That would have fine, except that Jenny didn’t even tell us, so we were just playing around in the pool with the kids for at least ten or fifteen minutes waiting for her before we realized she was now helping with the older kids. Let’s just say, those young ones had fun in swimming today, but I’m not too sure they learned a whole lot. Hopefully we’ll be more informed so that we can actually be effective next time!

Highlight of the week so far: There is a little boy in my class who has ADHD of the brain. His brain is always just going going going and it’s hard for him to retain any information. He is on medication that seems to help him function better, but it still is harder for him get the same amount of work done as the other students, especially since he’s one of the youngest ones. You’d think a child like this might be difficult to have in class, but he is just the sweetest little boy. He came up to me, hugged my arm and then gave it a quick little kiss goodbye before he raced out the door to go home. I’ll have to get a picture of him soon. So precious.