Next week has walls.

We finished off the last day at the drug rehab/mental health clinic yesterday for Week Without Walls. I was very happy with how the students responded to going there. They really enjoyed it and interacted well with the people there. I think a lot of our students are tired of learning and want to start doing. This gave them a small opportunity to do just that.

We had a full group of 22 on Thursday and it was a little overwhelming for the people there but yesterday we had only 8, including me and Pete. This was really nice to have a smaller group. In the morning we played volleyball with the people, then we ate lunch with them and then they had a program set up for us! They danced, then had us dance and sang. I taught them the macarena since that is the only dance I can sorta do.

There is a guy there that we called the laughing man. His favorite thing is to come up to you, ask a question and walk away laughing. His second favorite thing is to play chess. I've never actually won a chess game that I can remember so I don't like to play very much. He kept asking us all morning to play so finally I decided to play him. I was playing my hardest and was up by only one pawn when I noticed that he was crying softly. I felt really bad and started trying to lose but he was so shaken he wouldn't take any of my pieces. I then accidently checkmated him. I felt so bad that I made the laughing man cry. I tried to play him again to be able to lose but he wouldn't do it.

Next week is back to the grind... with walls