Chem + Physics

I met with the head-and 2nd-master today informally and found out that they want me to teach Chemistry Forms 1 & 3 and Physics Form 1. This means that most fo my students will barely understand English. The concepts aren’t difficult but conveying them will be. In a way, I’ve already started teaching. A girl, who stays at the hostel across the street, wanted some help with Chem & Physics. I agreed thinking that she had questions or topics that she doesn’t understand. Rather, it seems that she wants me to teach her Form 4 material that she will be covering in the coming year. I admire her enthusiasm to learn but I can’t just teach her the content off the cuff, esp. the Physics because it’s been longer since I’ve have it. I’m doing the best I can and tried telling her that I would go through any questions she had form Forms 1-3 but I don’t think she understood. Now if she wanted to learn about Astronomy and Geophysics (end of Form 4) rather than electricity and magnetism, that’d be another story. I’m used to teaching Earth Science topics.
I may have missed mass yesterday at the hostel but I made it today. My headmaster was also there with his wife and daughter (5 years old) and the sisters made us stay for chai afterwards. They also fed us maandazi (~sweet hunk of fried dough) and chapatti (like a breakfast tortilla) while we conversed with a sister and the visiting priest, who spent some time in NYC (studying at Fordham I think). Because they fed me something I didn’t bother to cook anything at home so I was able to do a quick turnaround and go back for Adoration. When I went to leave, I was asked to wait and chatted with a couple of the sisters in broken Kiswahili and English. I had to wait because Sr. Jacinta baked me a loaf of bread – a full loaf! It was like a loaf of French bread and I enjoyed some before bed; it was warm and delicious.