Tuesday was probably the craziest day where I accomplished the most... just to scratch the surface I ate dog and balut (half developed duck eggs). The dog meat was very mascara, delicious greasy steak taste... The dog heart and liver were not as tasty! And I enjoyed the baby duck/egg that tasted like soup, until I felt the crunch of the skull.
There are too many things to talk about that occurred on Tuesday, so you will have to ask me in person about training my fighting clock, Cocky.
The highlight of the day was waking up early heading to the elementary school to teach for the morning. When I rode my bike up the entire school (900 kids) were lined up disfunctionally in front of the flag pole for morning exercise and singing of the national anthem. By the way Philippine ppl do not like to walk or exercise much so they counted 10 jumping jacks as their daily workout. As soon as I walked up every kids head turned and the national anthem stopped mid sentence. They all just starred at me then giggled. After the morning announcements chaos happened when all of the students ran in random directions to go do whatever they wanted. A few teachers were absent so the students did not have to go to class, they just got on their bikes and left. They only get substitute teachers if a teacher is planning on being absent for more then 2 weeks...
After meeting the principle I went into a 5th grade science classroom. The teacher asked me to take over her lesson so she could work on grading ;) I asked her what she wanted me to teach about and she replied "science" and they have a test next month on body systems.. so I clapped walking to the front of the room and everyone stopped talking and jumped into their seats. I then winged a few lessons on everything I knew about the skeletal, respiratory, nervous, and circulatory systems. We played a few games like Simon says but Mr Matt says. When I was out of ideas I asked the teacher what I should do next.... she said "yes keep going". Having nothing else to teach I gave the kids a great lesson on basic chemistry that they all enjoyed. After they eagerly wrote down their homework about atoms we all stood up and sung " let it go" as a closing activity.
The most epic aka my favorite thing on my list was teaching the locals twisted... I can't even type the story bc I get too excited just recalling the events so I will have to tell you in person. Just imagine 150 kids learning the game at once during recess in the middle of the rd using chalk...
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