Friday, March 11, 2011

Just Another Day at Widden

Today, we woke to the normal breakfast and off to school we were.  Even though I had went to bed early the night before, I was still very tired.  When we arrived at school, we reported to Mr. Baker’s Year 1 class.  When we arrived in his classroom, they were working on adjectives and characteristics of characters in a story.  They were each given pictures of certain characters from a story they had been reading and they had to cut out the character, paste it in their notebooks, and then write about the characters.  They did quite a wonderful job at this.  I was very impressed by the different words that they would come up with and how hard they were working.  After that, the students worked on phonics, where they were slit into 3 groups which were mixed in with Miss Bland’s Year 1 classroom.  After phonics, the students worked on directions and how to highlight their route to the city park on a map that was printed out for them.  They did a wonderful job at this and it was so awesome to see how they knew all of the road names that were around them and how to walk to certain places in the city.  Since they were working on maps and directions, Melea and I decided to pull up NGCSU, Walmart in Dahlonega, my apartment, and Melea’s house up on Google Maps.  It was so cool to zoom in and be able to show them what America looks like and compare how big our schools are compared to their schools.  They loved every minute of it! 
After school, we came home and just had a few minutes to rest and hang out.  Monica decided to cook fish and chips for dinner, which are just french fries and fish fillets that are breaded and cooked in the oven.  It was delicious.  She said that these were good but that we would have “proper” fish and chips from a shop in town later on.  After dinner, Monica needed to go to the Quay’s which is a place similar to a mall.  They have a lot of different places to shop.  Unfortunately, we were only there for about 20 minutes before they closed.  Most places in the area close at 5:30 and other places close at 8:00, which we find to be very unusual.  After the Quay’s, it was off to downtown to look around and some of the old buildings and such.  It was a lot of fun.  We then headed home, booked out StageCoach bus ticket to London and off to bed we were! Before heading to bed, I was able to Slype with my little brother Levi and my dad, with some of my friends from college, and my aunt Christy and Grandma.  It was a lot of fun to get to talk to them.  
Love from England, 
Miss Dodd

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