Happiness

Happiness

                I have felt a lot of happiness over the past couple of days, and it’s a feeling I love. I have tried teaching the kids a lot of new games, and some of them are a great success, while others fail miserably. In a lot of our games, the kids hold hands and get in a circle, so when I tried to teach them “Red Rover,” they would hold hands, but keep getting in a circle, so that did not work. Soccer is the main sport, so I had no trouble setting up a soccer game. The teachers are really strict on the students, so when I tried playing “Simon Says” they wouldn’t get the concept of not do what I said when I didn’t say “Simon Says.” Then I got a lot of questions about the game like “Who’s Simon?” After that, I started laughing, and then the kids started laughing at me, and I couldn’t stop laughing, so the entire class laughed for about a full two minutes. I was in a good mood the rest of the day. Back in the states if something like that happen people wouldn’t be laughing they would be like oh wow what an idiot.

                In class I do a lot of jobs for the teachers; I grade papers, teach lessons, write on the blackboard, erase the blackboard, and play with the kids. One of the hardest and most over-looked jobs is sharpening pencils with a blade. The first time I tried, I didn’t get it even close to being sharp and everyone laughed at me, but today I can sharpen the pencils like a master.

                I started talking to a kid named Bazil, and he is so adorable that I just want to pack him up and bring him home with me. Bazil is really good at soccer; I was playing soccer with him and he could just run circles around me. He said that he has two older brothers and one younger brother, but none of them play soccer. I asked him how he got so good and he replied by saying that he plays at school or with rocks with his friends when they’re not at school. When he scores on me when we play soccer, he will look back and have a huge smile on his face like he is the happiest kid in the world.

                Today was sports day at the school and the only sport that they play is soccer, so we played a lot of it. I have never played soccer before so when we played, I got a foul for using my hands probably about five times, but when I did everyone laughed, so it was all a good time. After a while, I started getting the hang of it, but the kids were still way better than me. I was having a lot of fun, and I felt like I was getting way better, but by then it was the end of the day and the principal called it a day, and we had to go home.

                Everyone walked away happy today, and I feel like everyone should do that every day.