These children are different.

Ahhhh!!!!! I have the hardest job in the history of the world!!
The children decided that the didn't want to learn English today. I told them to write their vocabulary words and they drew pictures of funny faces and made paper airplanes to throw at each other. Its so difficult trying to control them when they get like that. People keep giving me all kinds of great advice on what to tell the kids so they will do what I want them to do. Only one problem; I can't tell the kids anything because we don't speak the same language. How do you control a class room full of unruly children if they can't understand you? If anyone has any advice feel free to email me a solution.
I feel like I complain a lot when I write this blog. I don't mean to. I really do love my job, and I know the children love me. Children are just difficult sometimes. I always have to remind myself that these children are different from American children. They don't have any support system at home. No one is helping them with their homework or making sure they go to bed on time. In Haiti, kids are pretty much left to raise themselves. The adults are always to busy just trying to survive. They don't have time to be attentive parents. So that leaves me with an entire school of rebellious students that are craving attention.  Some days I want to scream and yell and throw my hands in the air in defeat. Some days I look around me and I just want to cry. But most days I know the best thing to do is stop for a short moment and just give one child a hug. Even if its just one child. Even if it's just one hug. That's more then they would have got if I would have given up and went back to America. That's what keeps me going when things seem impossible. Even if no one learned any English today, at least, they know I'm coming back tomorrow and I'm not going to leave them. I'll just have to be the support they don't find at home.

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow."    ~Mary Anne Radmacher