Up around 7 a.m., but skipped my exercises for today. Spent the morning in routine Sunday activities...programming the DVR, reading the Sunday newspaper, etc.
Mother came over mid-morning to simmer a jar of spaghetti sauce with canned tomatoes, leftover meatloaf, and additional spices. We sat down to lunch around noon, after which Mother went home, Hubbie went out to work in the yard, and I dressed to go to a Literacy Council training session at a local church.
The training was scheduled from 2:30 to 5 p.m., but went on for an extra thirty minutes, thanks to one guy, who held forth on every subject introduced. He is retired military, who apparently was an instructor who taught instructors in some sort of aircraft repair...one of those people who knows everything about everything.
He was the only male present. Among the four of us women, two are already experienced adult learner teachers. They came, because they want to start a literacy council in their county. The building that housed the council was blown away in a tornado, so all their teaching materials were lost, and they have no funding to start back up again. They wanted to get information on obtaining grants for a program.
They are individually teaching a couple of students on their own right now, using whatever materials they can get a hold of. One lady is wheelchair bound. She's currently working with a 75-year-old man, who hopes to earn a GED and obtain a job. Seems like a pie-in-the-sky idea, but who's to say?
My first student might be an Hispanic woman, who knows some English. I've been assured that the material I'll be using to help her will make it possible to bridge the language barrier. I hope so, because I'm a little nervous about it. I don't want my inadequacies to block her progress.
A stumbling block right now is landing on days and times convenient to both of us. With her former teacher, she met at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour each day. Five is our supper hour, and I don't want to ask Hubbie and Mother to change that. The lady works until 4 p.m., so I'm hoping we can move the hour to 6:30 to 7:30 on Monday's and Tuesdays. Thursdays are close to the weekend, when we frequently plan trips, etc.
Back home, Hubbie had heated leftovers for our supper, after which we spent the rest of the evening watching TV, as usual.
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