March 6, 2013

• Whew!

  What a relief! Another week of co-op classes done and I get a week off before returning for the final four weeks. I am so ready for a break, so ready to be done with the hours and hours of preparation every week.

  Today we were studying East Africa so I got to talk a little bit about Kenya and show some photos of places I have been. One of the girls made mandazis and I brought a couple of big thermoses of chai which were very well received. The only problem was that teaching this lesson made me very homesick and the next lesson will be worst of all because we’ll finally get to Zambia!

  After we got home I had a new tutoring student to work with, a friend of Lucy’s. That is something I always enjoy.

  Last night Spencer was up late doing homework, and so was I. He was supposed to take a blood sample and look at it under the microscope. So we got out the microscope. Then a problem developed. Spencer was not willing to prick himself hard enough to draw blood. So I pricked my own finger, squeezed some blood on to a slide, and put it under the scope. We saw lots of little red blood cells swimming around. It was really cool.

  Today, when we got back from co-op, Jasper was very anxious to see the blood slide too. He did a great job of focusing the microscope and was thrilled to see the now-dried blood cells. “It’s so beautiful!” he exclaimed. So there you have it. My blood is beautiful. I’ll remind myself of that the next time I look in the mirror.

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