Teaching, Our School Bus & A Simple Life

I just finished an hour and a half of teaching English. Group two is a more spirited bunch. A couple of the ladies can manage to keep things going. Who knows where this group will end up. The list of sounds in English that are nearly impossible for Spanish speakers seems to grow. Spanish speakers have no sound such as the TH. They really find it uncomfortable to stick the tongue outside the front teeth to make that sound. The list goes on and on.

Our ten year old school bus was not in action this morning. A city bus was rented to run the route instead. I felt the transmission doing things transmissions are not supposed to do yesterday. We were lucky to make the route last evening. Watching the faces of people when they realized the city bus was THEIR bus this morning was a kill. I even started to wave the bus on. You need to realize that three buses come and go every morning in a five minute period just before our bus arrives. Bottom line is that you need to catch the right one.

Time has been speeding up from our vantage point as we get more involved in projects. We have another class made up of pastors which is yet to form and be scheduled. Running a full load of classes in the day and then teaching two or three evenings a week tends to make the time speed by. I have even heard a few complaints about exhaustion around the house.

Not having a TV or a radio has been a shock to our system on one hand; on the other hand it has been a nice break. I can only assume the US is continuing to irritate other countries around the world. We also assume that good old election rhetoric is making most Americans sick. We have suddenly dropped out of all this “stuff”. Our world is fairly simple.