Juggling Tomatoes and Singing Waitor/tresses

We have been doing so much! The teaching continues to be so much fun.

Last Elliot's Dad, James, and I took everyone out to a restaurant where all the waitors sang. It was fantastic. They were great singers and performers. One of them was absolutely hilarious. He did a song where one side of his body was dressed up as a man and the other was a female, and he would turn back and forth singing in a falsetto and then in a baritone. We were the most enthusiastic people in the restaurant so they started to focus on our table. Then this performer decided he needed to dance with the tall Americans---Asa and Zeus. At another point one of the performers started juggling tomatoes so we had to join in.

Asa and I have been using every opportunity to get peoples' attention. If they have to stare at the tall Americans, we have decided to give them full reason to stare. So we start juggling as we walk down the street. They audiences here are wonderful. The place where Mary Joyce lives has lots of people who know us, and today we gave them a performance and bowed for them. Ha ha. Then we received enthusiastic applause, and since they were standing, it was standing applause. Asa is complaining that no money is following the applause. ha ha

In addition to teaching math, science, and English, we have been doing juggling games with the kids. Four adults have already learned to juggle!! The kids here really have great hand eye coordination.

Well, our English instruction is including lots of writing and here is one of today's stories. We have been having the kids write in Tagalog and English. Ha ha. They are teaching us as we go.

My name is Princess Anne L. Dacles.
Ang pangalan ko ay Princess Anne L. Dacles.
I am nine years old.
Ako ay siyam na taong gulang.
I live in Banaba Street in Payatas A. Q. C. (this means in Quezon City)
Ako ay nakatira sa Banaba Street Payatas A.Q.C.
I have a brother, father, mother.
Ako ay may kuya, tatay, nanay.
My house is two rooms.
Ang bahay namin ay may dalawarng kwarta.
I like to play badminton with Mariel.
Gusto kong makipaglaro mg badminton kay Mariel.
I have no boyfriend.
Wala akong boyfriend.

-Zeus