The Ordway new era., 1922-05-05

SditcH. iHeTo were dUOuL SU lILtIe
youngsters. From there we took a
car and went to the English church.
| The missionaries and teachers take
turn about taking the boarding
youngsters to church.
started with my English classes
Friday morning and you can i'm
agine with what qualms l entered a
school room to teach for the first time
L got on pretty well though, but ex-
pect to do much better when l get
used to it. l have one class of spec
ial students who are English or Amer
ican but have been raised here.
There are five in the class and they
are dear girls. but it is going to keep
me busy preparing the lessons for
them and giving them what they
need for they are in all stages of ad-
vancement in English.
The horses here are all small and
they put such heavy loads on the
big wheeled carts and wagons then
beat the horses along, tho they go no
faster. Every time you want to take
street car here you have to signal
the conductor before It gets close to
you or they are likely not to stop.
We had lot of fun with Bernice the
other day. When she started home
from Gleason she was directed to Il
car going the wrong direction and
found herself clear ,ut in the country
she managed to make the conductor
understand that she wanted the
school and it happared to be the one
that eventually comes past here so
she stayed on and had nice ride.
Tuesday Mar. IA.
Am having good time trying to
teach these little youngsters to sag
ball, doll, stand, sit, etc. 1 have
to talk to them thru motions and
pictures, but usual,y make then. uii-
derstand. 1 drew II picture of bird
for one class yestcrdav and | do not
believe they thot much of my ar
tistic ability, but 1 go: the meaning
of the word to then. anyway.
do not think I-have described all
our family to yoL yet. We have
cook who is fine. two maids who
make beds and do the cleaning cx-
cept in the dormitories where the
boarding girls care for their own
rooms. We have two Spanish teach
ers who sleep in the dormitories with
the girls. They are such sweet girls.
A little Irishman does errands and
takes care of the grounds We have
Il dog. supposed to be white with
brown speckles His name is Candy
l used to play with him until one of
the girls suggested to ME that it
might be fees that were biting me-
| We have 2S or 81 boarding girls.
They do little W. rk such as setting
and clearing tablc5.
Eight P. M.-Got the New Era
tonight after supper and had to read
them right away. 1t has been quiz, =
warm the last two days.
Wednesday, Mar. %.
Last Friday night all of us mis-
| sionaries were invited to social of
the Young Peoples meeting of the
English church here and all turned
out in full force. Things do not be-
gin here until 900 p. M, or after and
it was $3.50 before many We're there,
but we had real good time playing
games. Then they served tea and
cake. Mrs. Thompson, the kinder
garten teacher went with us. She has
a daughter whose husband is mis-
sionary and has charge of an orph-
anage between here and Buenos
Aires.
l am getting on nicely with my
English classes and the youngsters
think it great fun to study English.
l am taking Spanish lesson every
morning from one of the teachers
here. Am getting so l can make a
remark in Spanish every once in a
while.
Sunday Evening, Mar. 26-Thot
| surely | would get this letter finished
this p. NJ, but Bernice and her
kindergarten teacher came up to
look at my kodak pictures. We had
told her of the large horses we have
in the U. s., and she could hardly
believe it until l showed here the pic
lures. Then a little after $500 a
friend of Mrs. Thompsons came
along in his Ford and took her, Ruby