Working on the learning centers always has ups and downs and I had a feeling that after the incredible week we had something was bound to happen. My feeling was proven right and we were completely overwhelmed today. We had almost 70 people at the center, 20 more than we usually have. We were also a couple of facilitators short and it really proved to be a difficult day. While I had some success most of the day was a real struggle. I was quite disappointed in myself for not being able to keep my cool. Not sure what it was about today but I really really just could not keep myself together. I got terribly angry. Despite the awareness that it was going to be rough I struggled to manage my emotions. However, I must say that whenever we get more learners it’s mostly a reflection of how we’re doing. The number of children at the center has always worked on a demand and supply basis. Once the initial randomness settled the number of children has typically hovered around what we’re capable of handling. For most of last year we only had 35 children. However, as we got better at working with the children and brought in more learning material the number jumped up to 50. Last week we had managed to successfully cater to 50 children and many of the children brought their friends. The result was today’s 70 children. We need to iterate and evolve our methods so we can now handle all of the ones we have.  There’s always the debate that we need to cap the center to a certain number of learners but in my mind, we just need to get better. When we had 35 and 50 started to come in we felt it and we were debating capping the number but then in a month or so we managed to cater to 50. I have no doubt that we’ll figure something out.