I think I already mentioned this, but my role at LEAP 4 is to fill in for the Combined Studies teacher (who is currently in the United States -- odd how that works out). Since yesterday was Mandela Day, today was the first that I was to teach.
I had to wake up wicked early to get to Diepsloot by 7:30, and despite my best efforts, did not make it until 7:35. It turned out OK, and tomorrow I will leave earlier. I introduced myself as a teacher, and then we got started by just thinking through their tour with Dainfern students tomorrow.
Dainfern is their partner school. In the afternoons, the students from LEAP 4 bus over to Dainfern and are able to use their computer and science labs.
Today was not without the natural awkwardness of finding myself teaching in someone else's school, and trying to do my best with that. I know that forging relationships take time, so I'm trying to be OK with the part where we're still just learning one another and figuring all of this out.
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