Last Day of Service

On Sunday, December 8th, Anna, Lauren, and I volunteered at the Nur-Allah Mosque for the last time. On this day of service, we arrived and then wrote the mosque basically a “Thank You” letter and we talked about everything that we learned and our experience working at the mosque. After that, we all made a fun, educational worksheet for the kids to use in the future that we made so that kids can always be learning from us even though we are not there. After we did this, we sat with the class while they were dissecting some Surahs from the Qur’an. The teacher was helping the students speak in Arabic and translate the Surah into English. After using a Qur’an written in Arabic for a while, they switched over to the English Qur’an in which they just talked about different Surahs. After Islam class, the french teacher came in and they learned the French alphabet. The teacher went over some basic words in the french. I think it is really cool that the students are being taught French, Arabic, and English. the teacher was saying that next year they are going to start learning some Spanish too. After this, we played some games with the younger children and then helped out with making lunch. For lunch, we had some hot dogs with some cake to celebrate our last day. We then received some cards from the lovely people of the Mosque and then read the letters to the class. It was quite sad saying goodbye to the lovely people that we met there, but it was a great day of service.