glona day 4

it was a more difficult day for me at glona on thursday. the kids had a hard time focusing and i was the only teacher in the room for most of the class. i discovered that most of them don't know their alphabet or the phonetic sounds that match the letters so we had to re-learn something they should have already known. moses, the child i helped so much last classes, didn't show up to school that day, the day we were going over things he didn't know. it was really frustrating to have him not show up. i felt bad too because solomon is way too advanced for learning the alphabet. he's bored, but if the other children don't know the basics, they won't advance either. this experience of teaching has really opened my eyes to the difficulties i might face if i do get accepted to the teach for america program.