We hit the ground running yesterday, driving around the community at 7:30am to round the kids up for school (it is the holidays after all!)
School here starts early, with breakfast for the kids then quickly into the first lessons of the day. It's fairly relaxed this week with lots of kids away from camp so we're all in one room and play hangman and other games that help to improve the kids literacy before sitting down to do reading in the library. The kids are still shy with me at this stage but one of them agrees to read with me - she's great, sounding out all her words and very proud to finish the entire book before fruit-time (their recess, but with a focus on healthy habits).
By the time we come back, do a bit more spelling on the ipads, it's time to make lunch - I'm supervising four 10 year old boys who want to help, organising them in to a production line to make sandwiches. It's only semi-successful as I realise my child wrangling skills are next to non existent but we get there in the end and no complaints from the kids about the quality so I consider this a win!
A walk on the salt lake completed the day, but sadly no photos from this as my camera wasn't charging when I thought it was and the battery was dead when we got out there.
Day 2 - my time to shine!
This morning was another 5am start, which is not as taxing as it sounds - it's the best part of the day, nice and cool and so we went for a run to the top of the nearest sand dune, about 1.5km away. It was so beautiful to see the sun continue to rise over the plains with the tufts of grass peeking out of the red sand. We plan to head back there on Friday, so I'll make sure I bring my camera
When we got to school it was my time to shine - I brought a bunch of midwifery stuff up from work with me and was teaching the kids what a midwife is as well as some vocabulary and spelling words to do with the body (gotta know how to spell uterus!) and a couple of practical activities with the baby dolls.
Here we are learning how babies are super clever and maneuver themselves to come through the pelvic bones to be born. The kids LOVED this! Even the boys, as you can see, were very keen to have a go at seeing how the baby moves through the body as they are born.
Even the smallest child, who is only 3 1/2 - 4 years old wanted to have a go - so cute!
And of course, after the baby is born, you wrap them up! So we did that too, with even more excitement from the kids.
They were really good at it too - lots had helped out with smaller brothers and sisters and they were complete pros.
After all that excitement it was definitely siesta time, so we packed up with promises of more baby action for tomorrow and retreated to the air-conditioned comfort of Carly's house.
Did I mention that I love it here??
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