Teaching English and the Computer Lab

The students have started to arrive! Today, after a tough run, I helped teach English to Form 2. We are teaching them Number the Stars, a book about the Holocaust. Students from my old school, Rye Country Day, will also read the book and we will have a blog for them to engage with each other. We have had a pen pal program since 2012, so it will be exciting to do an even larger exchange program.

We also visited Highway Academy’s lower school today. The students have just arrived and most are really shy but are extremely well behaved for being pre-school and elementary school aged students. They are so adorable. Some even showed off their impressive reading skills to me.

We have begun to teach computer again. Yesterday, we taught the teachers and today we taught Form 2. We have installed typing programs on many of the computers, so it has been much easier to teach the proper way to type. The students are really picking up the proper way to type quickly. Most of the teachers and students know Microsoft Word by this point so we can teach them more advanced skills this year, including Excel and PowerPoint.

The weather has been extremely beautiful here (not jealous of the many of inches of snow back home). We visited the tree farm yesterday that Teresa and Stephen created to benefit Wema. When they sell the trees, the money will go towards Wema’s finances. This type of project is really exciting because it makes Wema sustainable.