Our First Morning English Club

This week was our first week of Morning English Club (not to be confused with English Camp!). Since so many schools were destroyed, there are two shifts at the schools that are still usable. So, all the kids who have to go to school in the afternoons don’t get a chance to go to English Camp, so we’ve started a Friday morning English Club for them. We had about 25 kids this week, and a really nice group too. We discovered that one of the older girls (6th grade age?) who came, didn’t even know how to read in Indonesian yet. Usually these students slide between the cracks of the educational system here, and are ridiculed as they go. I could see in her eyes the wariness, and the self-consciousness about any attention from a “teacher”. We are glad she came, and hope we can give her some positive reinforcement so she doesn’t give up on herself, like so many others have done. The club went really well and I think they enjoyed themselves.