Hooray for Thursdays!

So I made it through my first week of classes. It's been a kind of depressing week; already I've had so much homework that I've barely seen Dan at all. He actually told me last night that he refused to let me eat dinner while doing my homework and needed to hang out with him for longer than 2 minutes. I think that I need to work out some sort of routine so that I can exercise at least every other day if even only for a brief period of time. I feel so restless and at the same time beaten down emotionally by having to just sit all day in my classes. Tuesday was the worse because it was my first long day. I almost didn't make it all the way through my last class, I honestly just felt like running as fast as I could out of the room.

The highlight of my week was going to visit the children at the preschool. It almost broke my heart. They all kept asking if I was going to stay. Since I had to go to class and could only stay for 10 minutes, I kept my coat on and the kids kept asking me to take off my jacket. Theo almost cried when I told him I had to go to class so I was going to keep it on. He kept asking me to take it off and stay. It was around lunchtime so I sat with them for a bit. I kept getting requests to sit with the kids so I had to rotate around every couple of minutes. After one of the girls asked me if I could stay, I tried to explain that I would be going to another school and helping teach older children. She paused and then asked "after you finish going to the other school, and you finish your other classes, then you'll come back here?" Its great to know that they miss me and still want me around. I promised them that I would come back and visit again. Even the parents that I see around campus have mentioned that I need to go and visit at the preschool more. Its nice to know I still have a place in their hearts.