Mothers must work in the gardens so they always arrive half an hour later for Hannali\u2019s class. Students are still registering, a month later, for Steph\u2019s Kindergarten. The reading club programs which I\u2019ve planned for the high school students have been slowly gathering momentum, but has been held back by exams happening around this time. These are all issues which we\u2019ve had to work with in the community context. Our programs have been slow, which perhaps goes to show that we are here to lay down groundwork and foundations rather than to simply run short- term summer programs.<\/p>\n
Took a couple videos of Kindergarten. Students really open up when the local adults aren\u2019t around watching. The language barrier is a lot cuter with the little kids. As Steph was going through the colours, she asked the kids, What\u2019s Orange in Lunyole? To which the little girl Mariam kept saying, shehumanide, shehumanide!!, <\/em>which we later understood to mean \u2018I don\u2019t know!\u2019. It\u2019s funny that she kept saying it at us, trying to get us to understand that it meant that she didn\u2019t know. Language barriers can be so amusing, in this way. Red is eliando<\/em>, orange omachungwa<\/em>, <\/em>It\u2019s pretty amazing how, given an environment with someone guiding, kids have been able to piece together English and Lunyole words so quickly. It\u2019s equally exciting for us to be picking up all these words from the children\u2019s babbling. Green is chilagela<\/em>.<\/p>\n Stephanie has this cute little exercise called the \u2018Magic Bag\u2019. In this bag, she puts a different object every week, and asks all the kids to take turns feeling the object inside the bag with their eyes blindfolded. This lesson the mysterious item was a bumpy lemon, monemu<\/em>, that we found on our homestead, and which we squeeze onto our food each meal. It\u2019s a bumpy, green lemon. Green lemon is monemu chilagela<\/em>.<\/p>\n We also pick up some words from the library staff who reprimand the children now and then. Emwe!<\/em> Is \u2018you people\u2019, and Ivan often says, You people, pay attention to the Teacher.<\/p>\n We\u2019bale (nyo) <\/em> Thank you (very much)<\/p>\n Shina\u2019shino <\/em>What is that?<\/p>\n Sago\u2019na <\/em>Look<\/p>\n Hena? <\/em>What is it?<\/p>\n Na(2)ha(3)ni <\/em>Now\/ At this time\/ At this junction<\/p>\n Editing the high school students\u2019 essays, I notice a pattern among common ways of phrasing things. Language communicates a lot of their culture, especially how they see things.<\/p>\n Kojeyo<\/em>!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How is there?<\/p>\n Huliyo<\/em>!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (reply) Here is good!<\/p>\n Mutiere<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you (and home) fine?<\/p>\n Otiere<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you fine?<\/p>\n Yishuha obwire? <\/em>How was the night?<\/p>\n Wanji? <\/em>Yes please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mothers must work in the gardens so they always arrive half an hour later for Hannali\u2019s class. 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