25 March 2009 (Day 9)

I had a pretty okay day at school today. My kids made these adorable Easter egg collages and then played outside and played Bingo. It would have been a great day, except for one little incident with a student that almost had me in tears. My teacher singled out one kid for not finishing his work. Instead of talking to him about it, so just held up his work and said, “Aiden didn’t do anything. What was he doing while you were all working,” and generally mocked him. And then another kid chimed in and said, “Yeah, because he’s stupid!” Aiden was on the verge of tears and I was too. I talked to him later to see how he was doing, and he told me he was having surgery the next day. I felt terrible, but other than that the day was uneventful.

That evening we were supposed to go to house church, but it got cancelled. Instead, Phoebe invited friends for dinner. It was interesting to chat with locals about the schools. Obviously we talk to Sandy and Phoebe, but it’s still cool to have different insight. Phoebe’s friend’s kids go to the same school Phoebe’s do, a very nice public school. We got to talk about way that their school compared to those that we worked in and whether or not the things that we see would be considered “normal” for the area. They were really nice, and even though we didn’t get to go to church I still feel like we had a good evening.