Peace Corp Volunteer in Tonga
That’s What It’s All About

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So I know I have been griping a bit lately about being sick and the truth is I don’t know what I am doing here. Sure I am supposed to teach English, but how and what and I don’t speak Tongan and where to start and on and on. “Well just do something” I said to myself. But what? Something easy and fun and we can try to make it all fit curriculum like later. Maybe a song? So I brought my song book to school and as soon as Sione saw it he was delighted. This is fabulous as I haven’t related with him much so here is some common interest that could spark some actual team teaching! We looked through, choose a song and I made a poster of the lyrics. The next day I presented the song, had the students read line by line the first and second verse and try to sing it. I also had them separate and sing in groups to prompt the quiet ones to participate more loudly, which worked. They seemed to enjoy it, and we translated the lyrics so hopefully they understand “He’s got the whole world in His hands” All in all not a bad days work.

Later that day I went out eva with Laukau and Va. We walked to the school so Va could cut the grass. Class 6 was congregating getting ready for their night class. I rarely eva to the school so I don’t think any (many?) of them knew I was there. As a group of students walked up I heard the unmistakable singing of “He’s got the whole world in His hands” And that was just the first group, two more groups were singing it later. Now I can’t say if that was just the song for them, they just wanted to sing, it was something different, or what, but the fact remains, they liked it! This experience was great, and exactly what I needed to get me out of this rut.

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