Day 6, Thursday evening
I just found out that we will be going back to work in New Orleans on the 23rd. Yeahhhh! So glad to be going there...glad I came to Biloxi too.
Yesterday I did tutoring in the morning. 3rd, fourth and fifth graders. It was great fun and the kids I tutored were so cute and so bright. The last session was a fifth grader who needed help with her pre-algebra class I wish I had paid attention when I was in school. I did fine with most of it and felt really embarrassed when a problem came up that I knew the answer to but couldn't explain to her how to do it. I had to go to one of the teachers to explain it to me. Nelson if you are reading this, I'm sorry:)
Later in the afternoon I went with 2 other volunteers to the boys and girls club where 100 kids gather to have a snack, do their homework and then go outside and play. I helped a girl with her reading and one 7 year old who is just starting school and wanted to work on her words and writing. She was so determined and other kids came up and made fun of her for being so far behind. And she would just look up and tell them to shut up. She was so determined and such a perfectionist. At one point she pointed to the scar on my neck and asked me what it was. So hard to expain surgery to a 7 year old. She had a great sense of humor too. Then suddenly she got up and ran out to jumprope. I played basketball with a 5 year old who kicked my ass. Let me just say that I felt a whole new kind of tired at the end of the day.
Today I painted and painted. Served lunch with the Salvation Army kitchen crew, painted and painted and went back to camp to work with the dinner crew. A great day overall.
All volunteers who worked on the pier are being taken out by the yaucht club on a schooner and fed yummy shrimp tomorrow evening at sunset. That includes me! I can't wait. So sleepy now.
Yesterday I did tutoring in the morning. 3rd, fourth and fifth graders. It was great fun and the kids I tutored were so cute and so bright. The last session was a fifth grader who needed help with her pre-algebra class I wish I had paid attention when I was in school. I did fine with most of it and felt really embarrassed when a problem came up that I knew the answer to but couldn't explain to her how to do it. I had to go to one of the teachers to explain it to me. Nelson if you are reading this, I'm sorry:)
Later in the afternoon I went with 2 other volunteers to the boys and girls club where 100 kids gather to have a snack, do their homework and then go outside and play. I helped a girl with her reading and one 7 year old who is just starting school and wanted to work on her words and writing. She was so determined and other kids came up and made fun of her for being so far behind. And she would just look up and tell them to shut up. She was so determined and such a perfectionist. At one point she pointed to the scar on my neck and asked me what it was. So hard to expain surgery to a 7 year old. She had a great sense of humor too. Then suddenly she got up and ran out to jumprope. I played basketball with a 5 year old who kicked my ass. Let me just say that I felt a whole new kind of tired at the end of the day.
Today I painted and painted. Served lunch with the Salvation Army kitchen crew, painted and painted and went back to camp to work with the dinner crew. A great day overall.
All volunteers who worked on the pier are being taken out by the yaucht club on a schooner and fed yummy shrimp tomorrow evening at sunset. That includes me! I can't wait. So sleepy now.
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