Today was our second week of volunteering with SHAWCO and it went so much better. Seeing the kids again was amazing, and it was much easier to build off the continuity of last week. Today’s lesson was about antonyms so we did a couple exercises together where the kids had to pair up a word with the correct antonym. When I asked one of the precocious fourth graders, Nakishka, what the antonym of “friend” was, she thought for a second before replying… “Rude.” Nailed in, Nakishka. All of the kids are incredibly bright. Their answers to my questions were all complex and thoughtful. I asked another boy, Enrique (alas, no relation to Iglesias—yeah, I already asked), to make a sentence with the word “future” in it that showed the meaning. Enrique said, “The man and woman got married, so now they have a future together.”
As we were leaving, some of the older girls gave Ellen and I an impromptu Afrikaans lesson. It turns out, we are not as quick of learners. We can now introduce ourselves, ask how someone’s day is, and make complete fools of ourselves in Afrikaans. My saving grace was when they taught us how to say “goodbye” (it is “totsiens”) so that I can excuse myself from a conversation before doing irreparable damage… So, Totsiens!
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