This week while volunteering at Nur-Allah, we finally helped with the Sunday school. Last Sunday, we just helped with an open house and cleaning up the Mosque, but this Sunday the kids were there. There were six children- ranging from Preschool to High school. We got there about thirty minutes before the kids got there to help clean up and make sure everything was ready for the day. I actually wrote the Arabic alphabet on the board- it was actually quite challenging because the letters are all really swirly. After the children got there, we split into groups by age level. I helped with the three high school-aged children. I wrote a prayer on the whiteboard that is an opening prayer to Allah, and the children copied the prayer down and memorized it. It was a pretty long prayer, but two of the children had it just about memorized and the third is still working on the prayer. The main teacher then taught some basic words such as “Apple” which is “Tafaha”, “Cherry” which is “karz” and “banana” which is “muz”. There was also another Mosque member there that spoke about the community garden that is funded by Nur-Allah. The mosque oftentimes makes meals for the members, and the garden supplies fresh fruits and vegetables for the meals. After she spoke to the children about how important knowing where your food comes from, and she taught other Arabic translations to the foods. We then concluded the learning time and I helped set up and serve lunch. Lunch is always provided during the weekend school because a lot of times this is one of the only meals that the children get on Sunday’s. It was a very fun day not only helping with teaching the children but also learning some Arabic for myself. There isn’t much class reading to connect my service too yet, but I am excited to learn more about Islam starting in the next unit.