The One With Kikiva (written 9/17/2012)

Kafule Secondary School has 4 grades which are divided up into 10 classes, 3 each for the first two grades and 2 each for the last two grades.  Each class has about 45 students however most of the time classes are combined since there are only 10 teachers here including Dahlia and myself (meaning there are 90 or 130 kids in the class).  Anyway, on Fridays I have back to back first year classes.  Kikiva is a boy in the first one of those classes.  He takes such diligent notes and loves answering questions.  On Friday I taught his class and when I finished I moved into the other classroom.  Kikiva followed me and sat down in the back of the room.  (His class had a free period next because there aren’t enough teachers for every class every period.)  He sat through the same lesson twice and raised his hard to answer literally every question.  I let him answer a few and he was so excited! The pride that these students take in their work and their eagerness to learn continues to impress me.