Third Day

Rode my scooter today. Yesterday I took a taxi in the morning. Then after the “camp” I asked the school to call another taxi. The head lady of the Office of Studies said no, she would take me home. I felt bad and told her taxi was okay. She thought it was too expensive (it was $8 US)

So I rode my scooter today. Things were great. Only took 30 minutes. One funny incident: I stopped at a red light. Normal, right? Then a scooter, 2 buses, and a bunch of scooters go straight through. Well! It was strange. Maybe I just imagined the red light. Or I saw it wrong – they saw green, I saw red.

I need to get a picture of the sign that explains how scooters turn left. It is quite fascinating. On my drive home today, I realized that is what the signs were. I’ll try to explain in words right now. The scooter goes straight through the intersection, but drives on the crosswalk then turns the bike and stops. They are now ready to go straight the direction they want to go. (The street on the left.) They do it this way, I think, because scooters stay on the right side of the road. It’s kind of funny to me. You have to wait through 2 lights technically.

Here’s a bit about driving I haven’t shared yet. Dad’s agent said “just because your light is green doesn’t mean the cross-traffic has stopped.” Made me chuckle. I can say it is true. Checking the intersection before driving through is essential here.

Today we worked on English spelling. I was trying to think of a way to correct the paper that would make them more interested. So I split them into 2 teams then 1 person from each raced to the chalk board and wrote the correct spelling. I think they liked it. Then we wrote words from a bunch of letters. They were all amazed that I found 70 words. One girl found 28-I was impressed. Then we played “Jackpot” or “1000” or “Fly’s Up.” We had 2 separate games going, boys and girls. The girls were very timid and would step away from the ball. I was surprised. I wanted/half expected a competitive game. Oh well. It probably would have been worse if the boys were in our game too. Then I sent them down to the basement (where there is air conditioning) and they did a word search with a bunch of countries. They returned to the classroom and did a cross word with foods from different countries. We didn’t have time to look at a map and locate the countries. It will have to wait until tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, the school wants us to teach them table manners and then they will eat pizza (using a knife and fork). Should be interesting. I didn’t take any pictures today.

AHH! Looks like it might rain. I'd better run home.