Teaching in Pattiveeranpatti, and back to Bethania! October 13th

Today we had quite an exciting day. This evening we returned to Bethania and it is so good to be back. We missed all these children so much. I was so happy to see each and every one, will all their smiles and stories. It's great to be back with my brothers and sisters.
This morning we taught classes at Chandra's school. Someone (Kelsey or maybe Ms. Umi) had decided that Chandra and the teachers at school should be informed that I, Paige, am an art teacher. So here I went, class to class, teaching proper proportional face drawing to crowded, loud, attentive, full classes of little students in their red plaid and khaki uniforms. It was loud and fun and challenging. We taught some 3rd grade classes. One particularly exciting class was the 1st grade. 40 first graders, crammed 4 students to a two person desk and we drew faces. There were some crazy faces drawn and the assignment to 'draw yourself' was not really well understood in any of the classes. We looked through some of the drawing notebooks and everyone's drawings were exactly this same, same colors, everything. They wanted to be told what to color everything, to copy exactly from the board. So we walked around and asked kids to draw themselves after we drew the proper faces. There were some little boys who drew girls with pigtails, but mostly, maybe some of them got it and decided to be a bit creative. Either way it was quite a learning experience and a fun interesting challenge. Its fun being teachers in Pattiveeranpatti, but we feel like that school is already very well staffed and equipped. The kids seem to like our lessons, and it's so sweet when they call us all "madam". The school already has many qualified teachers and helpers, and the classes we taught always had teaching assistants. We are happy to be back at Bethania where these kids definitely have less and need our time more.