Relearning the Basics

So as you may or may not know - may know because I've mentioned in a blog, but may not know because I never write about it - I'm working two days a week at a home with older boys from 6-12 years old. At first I struggled finding my sense of purpose there, working with older more independent kids I didn't feel as "needed" at first as I do at Solomon with the babies. But over the past month I've truly begun to find my rhythm there and am really enjoying the change in scenery two days a week.

After working for a while with the kids helping them with homework, I've come to have a whole new appreciation for my parents helping me with homework as I was growing up. Having to remember how to do long division by hand after YEARS of using a calculator and doing more complex math seemed almost impossible. Fractions? Forget it. It didn't help that they have a different method of setting up their equations in Bolivia, so that confused me on a whole other level. Slowly but surely it's all coming back to me and I'm relearning how to do long-division all over again. But man, there's nothing like some 3rd grade math to make you feel stupid.

Lets just hope they don't start to put me with the 5th and 6th graders...