Hump-day, I don't think there is a Samoan word for that...

Look at me go, yet another post. We went out to the schools again today for another vector control lesson with positive results. It seems that the lesson plans are just long enough and have just the right amount of activities to keep the kids engaged. Our team this week is made up of:

Myself, the stunningly handsome peace corps volunteer who is also quite brilliant and has been working for the Red Cross for close to two months

Marjorie, a young lady from the US here with her husband. She has been volunteering for the Red Cross here for about a year. (I think that's right)

And Rodney, a young Samoan gentleman who has been volunteering for the Red Cross for quite sometime and has been taking the lead with the primary school lessons.

Rodney while tentative at first has really settled in to the teaching role. Which is great to see considering my Samoan is still subpar and the kids would leave the lesson with more questions than answers. Who knows if I lead the lesson in Samoan the kids would probably leave the session with the information on how to start a mosquito farm and the belief that it is a good idea! I am planning on getting some of the information together for our future lessons and work with my landlord to translate the information so I can deliver more of the lesson to the kids and take some of the pressure off Rodney. Plus I think that will be a great way to learn more Samoan!

My Samoan has been improving some over the last few weeks but I do need to get in the habit of writing new words down since I am 100% not an auditory learner. The main thing I need to work on for teaching kids is my sentence structure. I can piece a sentence together with Samoan words but it's usually in an order that makes sense in english but sounds ridiculous in Samoan.

We are heading out again tomorrow and we will be going to a secondary school so I will be able to use some english to teach which will be nice but it does have its difficulties because sometimes you can get to comfortable and talk to fast or use words that may be outside the vocabulary of the students.

If the next 3 weeks go like this one is time is going to fly and I am really going to enjoy myself. I am sure I will post on the weekend but as always no promises.