Day Ten - Blog Post by Ryan Barthelemy

Day 10 – Ryan Barthelemy

Our team woke up this morning tired but very refreshed. After our quick, makeshift breakfast we were ready to start our first day back at the school with the children. Even though it was a chilly walk to the school we were very optimistic about the day. Thankfully, the children were glad to see us back and were still respectfully calling us “Teachah!”. It was a huge blessing to our team to see the kids still adoring every one of us but we had quite a lot of work to do! Many of us taught classes to the 4^th graders, 5^th graders, 6^th graders and 7^th graders such as history, math, and science. Other people on our team helped the younger kids and played outside with them. The morning soon moved into the afternoon and we were still working hard. Most of us took a turn helping empty a little abandoned fish pond that had tall plants and slabs of concrete in it and not a drop of water. We continued to play with the kids and help in their classes as well. The afternoon zoomed by and before we knew it, it was time for our lesson. Today’s lesson was about Rahab and her contribution to the fall of Jericho. The girls on our team took charge of the lesson today and they did a great job! They had colored big pictures of the characters in the story and showed them to the kids while the story was narrated by Gaby. After the story the children made little bracelets with letter beads spelling out the word faith. These were for the kids to take to remember Rahab’s faith in God. The bracelets were also made with red string (you can probably guess the significance) and other colored beads. After the craft we said goodbye to the kids and walked back to the house happy with how the day had turned out.