02/06/09

The weather here has cooled off lately and this week it has been overcast which made it even cooler than normal. It affects the Haitians when it is around 75 degrees or lower. Many of them ask me to turn the ceiling fans off and to close the windows. Today in the 6th grade, I was walking around to help the students with some problems they were working on. As I was helping one student, another was tapping my arm to get my attention. I noticed he started to grab my arm with his cold little fingers. I turned to look at him and he said, "Mr. Doug, your skin is hot." as if he was amazed at how warm it was. I think the weather is comfortable but when I was talking to my friend, Marc, he said that he was really cold today.

After 6th grade I always go upstairs and teach Geometry. Well, this past weekend I had been flipping through the book looking at the remaining chapters and noticed that we would finish early if we kept going at our current rate. As a matter of fact, we would be finishing about a month early. So, I was talking to the fourth grade teacher and she mentioned that she teaches math at the same time. So, today, I brought the seniors downstairs to her class so they could work one-on-one with the 4th graders. Below is a picture of them scattered throughout the hallway and some of them toward the back of the school sitting in small groups. Miss Cady had written problems on the board that they copied down on a sheet of paper. They were working on those problems and also had a page from their workbooks to complete. It was awesome to see the seniors huddled around with the fourth graders helping them with their math problems.





While the seniors were working with the 4th grade, I went upstairs to take a look at the construction site. I noticed Roger had climbed out onto the steel I-beams so I took the picture below.