A picture of this years Rehab Tech class with their teachers. Hard to read the board in the background but looks like they're covering muscle structure and tone... in French!! A challenge for both teachers and students!
Hard to believe we are nearing the end of our first week of class already. My canadian teaching colleague Kim is brilliant and a lot of fun to teach with. We usually start teaching at 8:30 and go until 3 or 3:30. Ended a half hour early today as it was threatening to pour and 2 of our students ride their bikes 45-60 minutes to class each day. The rest are close enough to walk. The afternoons are the hardest because it gets so hot so we try to keep them moving around and play lots of games to keep it interesting. Kim had started the normal development section before I came so we finished that up together and the students did very well on their exam on Wednesday. We have now moved on to the section cerebral palsy. Sila is working in the clinic at the hospital sonshe often lets us know if there is an interesting pediatric patient we can see which is great! It really helps the students to have the practical observations mixed in.
Our students are a very sweet bunch. 2 girls - Gerti and Suze, and 4 boys - John, Willien, Franzo and Edner. Nahoum was our translator last year as well and he dies a great job of keeping us understanding one another. They like to practice their English with us as much as we like to practice our Kreyol with them. Funny all around! They are teaching us a Haitian Proverb each day. Today's:
Evite mi yo' pa se Mande pardon
It is better to prevent than to have to heal.
Lapli koumanse - the rain begins. Always, L
