Photo Shoot and Other Fun!

We just finished up class with the women and Mel and I are walking away with huge smiles on our faces.  We asked our friend Molly to come in and take pictures while we were teaching and afterwards we got a few pictures with the whole class. 

At the beginning of class I had asked Clara, one of the better English speakers, to ask the class if they would mind of a friend came in to take pictures.  Some of the women just got huge smiles on their faces, others replied with “Okay…”, and yet others started fixing their hair and clothes already.

Molly arrived during the middle of class and got some great action shots of the women playing a vocabulary game.  Mel had the women split into two groups and each group had to work together to spell the said vocabulary word.  The groups each had a set of alphabet cards and were to find the correct letters to spell a word and then arrange themselves in the correct order at the front of the classroom.  Women were running around, yelling, and letters were flying everywhere.  We have yet to look through the pictures but I am sure Molly took some amazing actions shots!

After class we took a whole class photo with the women.  Mel and I sort of stepped back and let the women arrange themselves however they saw fit before we jumped in.  It was quite humorous to watch them help each other fix their hair, fix their clothing, and check out one another’s poses.  After a few minutes of rearranging we all settled in to our first of several arrangements.  As Mel and I were smiling, we quickly glanced and realized that some of the women were posing reading their Bibles or looking off into the distance.  Lucy, one of the women who always brings a little comedy to the class, had her Bible open and her finger in it like she was following along with a reading. 

As we finished arrangement number four or five, several of the women shouted “Again, again!” as they wanted more pictures to be taken.  Molly assured them that she had taken many great shots and they all gathered around to see.  Picture 18 women gathering around the tiny screen of a camera to view the photos.  There was cheering and laughing as they all took a quick glance.  All of the women were requesting to get a copy of the photos which Mel and I think will make a good gift for the last day of class.