Yesterday was a pretty tough day. School has not been getting any easier. The problem is they are paying a Haitian man to teach some math, I think two or three times a week. There may be a couple ways to do math, but the way he is teaching them is so different and it is making things MUCH harder. They are taught one way in their books and he teaches a completely different way and then I try to figure out which one they know…it is all together not a great process. They are still trying to get to know me and trust me so they are pretty much non verbal. I can’t figure out what they actually know and what they don’t; If they are understanding me or completely lost. These kids just keep failing their math tests over and over and just not getting it. I really need strength to find ways to help them learn. I need for them to trust me and be able to ask for my help. I spent almost 3 hours on 4 problems with one girl yesterday. She is extremely far behind and I’m not even sure how she made it this far. She doesn’t know her multiplication tables or division. She is almost 18 and almost finished with the rest of curriculum. So it is my sole duty to get her through math in these next two months. Please pray.
Chibelson finally returned yesterday. He is the baby my friend Kendall took back with her to the states to get surgery. When she brought him back on January 7th he had to go straight back to his father. He was here on a temporary orphan basis. His mother died a couple months after he was born and his father doesn’t have the money to take care of him. The main goal was to get him here for good, but the paperwork was just a headache. It took almost 2 weeks before he could come back. Which meant this baby went from almost dying, then was taken to the states for two months, had two different surgeries but all the while being spoiled and living a normal childhood, brought back to Haiti and had to spend two weeks back with his father, who could barely feed him. They tried to bring him back a week ago because they said they just couldn’t take care of him, but Canaan could not take him without the proper papers. So God only knows what that baby has gone through these past two weeks. But he is here now safe and happy! While we were sitting and waiting for Pastor Henry to get everything worked out so Chibelson could stay, a mother and daughter came up with these twin babies. They just cried and cried because they were starving. They spoke with Pastor Henry, but I literally have NO idea what it was about, I really need to learn this language! The older lady just started crying and they were going back and forth…in the end she left with the two babies still starving….it broke my heart.
Chibelson finally returned yesterday. He is the baby my friend Kendall took back with her to the states to get surgery. When she brought him back on January 7th he had to go straight back to his father. He was here on a temporary orphan basis. His mother died a couple months after he was born and his father doesn’t have the money to take care of him. The main goal was to get him here for good, but the paperwork was just a headache. It took almost 2 weeks before he could come back. Which meant this baby went from almost dying, then was taken to the states for two months, had two different surgeries but all the while being spoiled and living a normal childhood, brought back to Haiti and had to spend two weeks back with his father, who could barely feed him. They tried to bring him back a week ago because they said they just couldn’t take care of him, but Canaan could not take him without the proper papers. So God only knows what that baby has gone through these past two weeks. But he is here now safe and happy! While we were sitting and waiting for Pastor Henry to get everything worked out so Chibelson could stay, a mother and daughter came up with these twin babies. They just cried and cried because they were starving. They spoke with Pastor Henry, but I literally have NO idea what it was about, I really need to learn this language! The older lady just started crying and they were going back and forth…in the end she left with the two babies still starving….it broke my heart.
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I am praying for you. I am looking for the RAP Multipication CDs. Since everyone there seems so musical, this might be the way to help this girl learn. I just wish there was some way to get this to you quickly. Maybe a CD could go in an envelope and be considered a letter. Don't give up...there is something that will make the light bulb go off. It is so rewarding when this happens. Beleive me I know from the years working with Special Ed. Also remember Mr. Garrett's way for kids who could not learn their multiplication facts...count by 2s thru 12s. It worked for his kids. Love...MM
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