So our first actual day of ministry in Mukono, Uganda was at Champions Christian School, and you can believe that I wasn’t overly excited. Our ministry was to teach classes there.
And my hopes that there would be two of us teaching together was quickly dashed when I arrived.
And my hope that I wouldn’t be teaching English was quickly dashed when that was the book I was handed.
My hope to teach young children was quickly dashed as I walked into the fourth grade classroom.
And my hope that the teacher would let me observe for a few minutes and be there to answer my questions was quickly dashed as he walked out and closed the door behind him.
My heart sunk as panic began to sink in.
I don’t know how to teach…
I don’t remember fourth grade english…
What if they can’t understand what I’m saying?
What am I supposed to do?
I started tearing up just a bit as I wrote the lesson from the page the book was open to on the blackboard.
Trying earnestly not to cry in front of an entire class of students.
I thankfully was able to pull myself together, turned around, introduced myself, and started the lesson.
It became clear right away that they weren’t interested in the lesson.
Everytime someone raised their hand to ask a question, it wasn’t about the lesson.
It was about me or America or the foods I like to eat.
By answering the latter, I was given an avocado by one of the kids which was super adorable.
And that I believe is the point where things started to turn around.
I told them everything they wanted to know about me and America and whatever they had to ask.
The thing I forgot… was that I was their teacher. Haha
At the end of the class I graded their papers which is wen it became really evident that I’m not very good at teaching.
They got the majority of the questions wrong.
But oh well, at least they seemed to have a good time and I didn’t completely bomb they actually liked me by the end of it all.
I thought this was a rather ridiculous first day in Uganda that I should share with y’all back home so I hope you enjoyed the read.
