First Few Days in Mako

I arrived in Mako on Saturday night and attended church with the sisters the next morning. The service was all in Hungarian so I didn't understand anything but it was still nice to go. After church we had time to rest and Dominika, one of the sisters took me swimming with her. The pool was very nice and within walking distance of the school. On Monday the students welcomed me very warmly. They are taught math in Hungarian and then they have an English class. They are broken into two groups of ten and two teachers teach each group for 20 minutes and then they switch. The teacher I am observing uses story books to teach the students English words. She teaches one story a week so I will take over next week. I would like to teach the students directional words like, on, in to the left, to the right etc. and the days of the week. I am working on planning the activities for those lessons now.
Today the students started teaching me some numbers in Hungarian. I know 0-4 and how to say yes and no, but I am still working on the rest of the language :)
The school day is laid out much differently than school in the United States. One teacher teaches the students until lunch time and after lunch another teacher comes and takes the class for the rest of the day. After lunch students have recess and do their homework until it is time for the parents to pick up the students. I am not sure, but I do not believe my teacher has a formal lesson plan and there are no objectives written on the board. Its been very interesting to observe a classroom that is much different than one in the United States.

To my Woodhome Friends:
I miss you all and I hope you are being good for Ms. Keen and Ms. Wright. On Monday my students planted trees by their school to help make it a little prettier. There are workers renovating the school and they had to take down some of the trees so now the students must replace them. Here are some pictures from Monday: