We are having a busy week this week as we have to complete a Professional Development Module for World Teach as well as doing our usual lesson planning. But we have a public holiday on Monday, so we can have a more relaxed weekend. We are looking forward to a school social for David's school on Friday evening, and another trip to Nuu'uli Falls on Saturday with some new friends.
We went to Immigration yesterday and are alarmed that a bond has to be paid for each of us equivalent to a single ticket to our home country. We are hoping that either World Teach will be able to sort this, or perhaps the Dept of Ed will be able to appeal for exemption.
I am practicing my new bit of Samoan which is Manuia le aso - have a blessed day.
Kate
Thursday 30 August 2012
Monday 27 August 2012
our neighborhood - photos
our house - nice big open porch
Sunday 26 August 2012
out and about - photos
At Nuu'uli Falls. Good swimming-much colder than the sea!
The central bus station or 'bus exchange' where you change busses.
The hike towards Nuu'uli Falls.
photos by the sea
Uploading photos to the blog is still (for us on this machine and slow connection) an art rather than a science, and it takes a while even when it works, so we may try a few at a time. No swimming on Sundays here but we've found somewhere where we can but it's quite a hike from the house.
some of the volunteers at a public swim place
At the east end of the island. Looks like I've shrunk!
Saturday 25 August 2012
Our house is a very very very fine house
We are very fortunate in having the best house - the only ones with a lawn anyway! David and I have an ensuite room and we share a large open plan lounge with kitchen area. We share with two younger volunteers who each have their own room. We also have a spare room for guests - which happens quite often at the weekend as we are fairly central and the buses stop running at 6 pm. We are lucky to have a washing machine (antique but it works), and washing lines under cover. It always seems sunny here, but it can really chuck it down any time at all. We have clubbed together to get the internet in the house, which comes along with cable TV, so now we are blessed by having BBC World News. It is such a relief to see those familiar faces and the dulcet tones of reason. The house has a massive verandah looking over the garden with chickens and chicks, and quite a few birds hopping around the trees. Of course said chickens/cockerels start crowing under our windows any time from about 4 am. We have a couple of dogs which are the tail waggy type thankfully. Most dogs here are the mangy scary type - so I now take my umbrella everywhere - the dogs creep off when they see me coming.
It is in a quiet area where the extended family of our landlord live, so we feel we are surrounded by many people who know about us and keep an eye on us. We have some family members who groom our lawn and sweep the leaves off it. The area has dirt roads and well spaced houses among jungly trees. Just over the road is a traditional building called a fale - it is now used as a family meeting place, having open sides. We can have a little stroll around the local area if we are feeling brave about dogs and ask permission at every opportunity. It is rude here to wander around and not pass the time of day. People here ask Where you are going? which is similar to us saying How are you? Another interesting thing is that most houses have the graves of the ancestors in the front garden. Funerals are massive things here, they set up a pergola outside the house and large numbers of people seem involved for quite a few days.
David and I both have a 40 minute walk to our schools, and pass some reasonable shops on the way home so we can pick up most things that we need. The prices are more than the US or UK, but that is what you might expect as nearly everything is imported. There are some pretty cheap things like local veg, pork, chicken. There is a lot of tinned fish and meat like tinned tuna, greasy corned beef, spam. When you look in the freezer cabinet you would be amazed and bamboozled by the exotic body parts - chicken feet, turkey tails, pigs chaps, intestines, tripe, gizzards, massive octopus with 1 inch wide suckers, dodgy shellfish. Unfortunately it is all a bit expensive to buy if you are not sure you could stomach it! Hope to put on some more pictures soon. Kate
It is in a quiet area where the extended family of our landlord live, so we feel we are surrounded by many people who know about us and keep an eye on us. We have some family members who groom our lawn and sweep the leaves off it. The area has dirt roads and well spaced houses among jungly trees. Just over the road is a traditional building called a fale - it is now used as a family meeting place, having open sides. We can have a little stroll around the local area if we are feeling brave about dogs and ask permission at every opportunity. It is rude here to wander around and not pass the time of day. People here ask Where you are going? which is similar to us saying How are you? Another interesting thing is that most houses have the graves of the ancestors in the front garden. Funerals are massive things here, they set up a pergola outside the house and large numbers of people seem involved for quite a few days.
David and I both have a 40 minute walk to our schools, and pass some reasonable shops on the way home so we can pick up most things that we need. The prices are more than the US or UK, but that is what you might expect as nearly everything is imported. There are some pretty cheap things like local veg, pork, chicken. There is a lot of tinned fish and meat like tinned tuna, greasy corned beef, spam. When you look in the freezer cabinet you would be amazed and bamboozled by the exotic body parts - chicken feet, turkey tails, pigs chaps, intestines, tripe, gizzards, massive octopus with 1 inch wide suckers, dodgy shellfish. Unfortunately it is all a bit expensive to buy if you are not sure you could stomach it! Hope to put on some more pictures soon. Kate
David's second week
After our heavy football loss last Saturday, I attended another game Thursday which was quite exciting and we won narrowly after losing then regaining the lead. Not knowing the finer points of American football I learned a bit by asking my fellow teachers why they didn't do this or that; sometimes there was no reason so we do have room for improvement. This was a tiring day because I had no breaks because of illness of another math teacher so I had his classes as well part of the day. Fortunately he returned today. My classes are still not settled and the computer system we use for entering absences has not yet caught up with the changes so there's still uncertainty about who are really my students. Today was still quite busy and this afternoon there was a fight involving three students which came out of a clear blue sky. It flared up and since we are not supposed to intervene I quickly found a school counselor but the fight had fizzled out in the 20 seconds it took to get back to the classroom. They were marched off and I didn't see them until the end of the lesson when they came back to make a convincing apology - some of them could win Academy Awards I think! Still teaching very basic stuff, necessary because of where the students are academically, even my 'calculus' students. I have permission to go ahead with a chess club and about 15 students have signed up so we'll start next Thursday. I will look for some sets or buy them from Amazon since the postage cost is not too enormous. David
Wednesday 22 August 2012
School challenges
At the end of last week I had a problem with my hand after writing on a chalk board for a week - something that I haven't done for 30 years. So I went hunting for chunkier chalks and was pleased to find sidewalk chalks which are much easier to hold - the size of sausages! They work well on the board, soft and they don't get so damp with your sweaty hands.
I am trying very hard to make my lessons engaging, by doing lots of short activities and games. For instance this week I am revising basic arithmetic and negative numbers. So I've made number cards. The students have one each and mill around to try to make themselves into a sum - say it's multiplication. Then we have a judging session - those who are in sums read them out, the rest are judges - thumbs up or thumbs down? I think this kind of thing is worth doing as all the students get engaged in figuring out what numbers they need to match with 42 for instance. I don't think they'd be so engaged by pages full of drill sums...
However the school is more interested in me turning in detailed formal lesson plans preferably with high falutin' objectives. Fortunately they are on a weekly basis so I just need to swallow a dictionary on Sunday afternoons.
More positively, I think maybe our efforts have unexpected positive consequences sometimes - for instance I was teaching about number line today, moving right and left - maybe these kids will have a better notion of how to give directions out in the street!
Kate
Monday 20 August 2012
Football, beach hunting, new church
It seems to work best for us to prepare lessons on Sunday, as this is a day where everyone is expected to stay at home in their family. So we like to make the most of Saturday. Yesterday morning we went to watch the first American Football match between schools. Remember that this island is only 20 miles by 3 miles, and the population of Hereford, and you'll appreciate that matches between schools are what it is all about. The schools are the main organizers of sport, and getting sport scholarships is a major way to get off island, so it is all deadly serious. There is a mini stadium, which is the only pitch that there is, so this is where the matches are. American Football is like rugby only with more tackling and less running. Each bit of play lasts a minute or so, then the clock stops while it all gets sorted out ready for the next bit. There are vast teams split into different squads who swop on and off the pitch every few minutes. I felt it was all a bit of an Alice in Wonderland experience. I guess you could say it is a spectacle - there is also a fine view from the top of the terraces looking out towards the breakers on the distant rocky shore.
For the afternoon we went in search of said breakers, which was a bit of a long walk, but worth it. We ended up at the historic governor's residence which is next to a bar which hosts the local night life. We strolled off along the rocky shoreline, seeing pillow lava, flow patterns in the lava, blowholes (not blowing much). It was a bit like a geology textbook. The rock is black, the sea an intense turquoise blue with white breakers - get the picture? We trudged some way along the coast hunting for a place where we could swim. Places with breakers are too rough and rocky, places without are too shallow as they are coral lagoons - you have to find a small patch of deeper water between patches of coral. Our patch was only about 20 feet long, but it was enough for a swim - one at a time so we could help pull each other out up the steep corally beach - very scratchy - we were glad of the surf shoes we bought in Pembrokeshire before we left! We saw some intensely blue tiny fish but didn't have our snorkel with us this time. We walked about three miles hopping along rocks - with no shade before we came to an idyllic spot with a few trees for shade and views across the lagoon and along the breakers. It was an exhausting afternoon so we rounded off in Kentucky Fried Chicken for air conditioning, TV, ice cream and iced pop.
This morning we went to a different English Church, which is Congregational. They made quite a fuss of us - the service was much more to our taste, the first half being very simple and from the heart - the second half was culturally challenging as the message was absolute: the value of the traditional family with the aim of producing children being at the heart of home, community and nation. Hearing how people view the family here makes it easier to understand why there is such a rift with churches having more liberal views. This English Church attracts non-Samoans, there were folks from Fiji and India. We will probably stick with this church and see how it goes. Kate
For the afternoon we went in search of said breakers, which was a bit of a long walk, but worth it. We ended up at the historic governor's residence which is next to a bar which hosts the local night life. We strolled off along the rocky shoreline, seeing pillow lava, flow patterns in the lava, blowholes (not blowing much). It was a bit like a geology textbook. The rock is black, the sea an intense turquoise blue with white breakers - get the picture? We trudged some way along the coast hunting for a place where we could swim. Places with breakers are too rough and rocky, places without are too shallow as they are coral lagoons - you have to find a small patch of deeper water between patches of coral. Our patch was only about 20 feet long, but it was enough for a swim - one at a time so we could help pull each other out up the steep corally beach - very scratchy - we were glad of the surf shoes we bought in Pembrokeshire before we left! We saw some intensely blue tiny fish but didn't have our snorkel with us this time. We walked about three miles hopping along rocks - with no shade before we came to an idyllic spot with a few trees for shade and views across the lagoon and along the breakers. It was an exhausting afternoon so we rounded off in Kentucky Fried Chicken for air conditioning, TV, ice cream and iced pop.
This morning we went to a different English Church, which is Congregational. They made quite a fuss of us - the service was much more to our taste, the first half being very simple and from the heart - the second half was culturally challenging as the message was absolute: the value of the traditional family with the aim of producing children being at the heart of home, community and nation. Hearing how people view the family here makes it easier to understand why there is such a rift with churches having more liberal views. This English Church attracts non-Samoans, there were folks from Fiji and India. We will probably stick with this church and see how it goes. Kate
Friday 17 August 2012
David's first week teaching
I'm at 'Votech' a vocational or trade school of about 400 students. I'm here to teach math as part of the school's mission of providing an academic foundation for the students. I had no idea which math I would be teaching but I had free rein to teach anything this first week so I've included 'countdown' (a popular TV quiz game in UK) and the relative populations and areas of Am.Samoa, UK, and USA. The teaching day has been divided into 6 supposedly equal periods this week. in fact they are not equal because the bell is rung manually and depends on someone remembering! This results in some periods being 15 minutes longer than others. Scheduled times are several minutes out because the clock-in clock is wrong and the persons who are authorised to adjust it are not available! . Not all students were here from day 1 and many are switching courses but things seem to be settling down now. Go with the flow! In addition to my math students I've been teaching some business students in their teacher's absence but fortunately he's back now. I teach basic algebra (2 classes) and precalculus and calculus! This is optimistic to say the least since even my best students are starting from little and wrong! Academics is a low priority for the students; much more important are 'music' and football(American) and there's a game tomorrow starting 8am versus Leone, the village to the west of the island where there are 4 worldteach volunteers so I expect to see some of them tomorrow. The week finished with a 'pep rally' this afternoon. This was an assembly of the whole school and a chance for students to let of steam with their football chants which they've been practicing all this week (the school is divided by years: freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior which correspond roughly to 4th 5th and 6th form) The chants are very varied and rhythmic with clapping and very very loud.. All about building the school spirit. 'from the east to the west, the wildcats are best!' We are the 'wildcats -yellow and black colors. Go wildcats! David
School day 2
This is the second half of the School day post.
We have short days this week as some students have not registered so they have a lot to sort out. The ends of classes can be a bit flexible in timing as someone has to physically go out to ring it, so we have to play games at the end for 5 to 10 minutes until it sounds. My classroom is very hot as it has no fans and no air conditioning. It is noisy as it is at the end of the building near the loos and the gym, so boys tend to hang out in the shade of the roof so that can disturb us. At the end of the day the American football quad warms up and practises right outside my door which sounds like rugby chants, I make a beeline for the other vol's classroom which is blessedly cool and quiet - I can do prep there until we are allowed to leave at 4 pm.
Needless to say that I work most of every evening at present. They are just adjusting to the Core Standards (like National Curriculum) and these do not match the current text books. So we have to plan out our scheme of work carefully - just finished! The other thing is that our students are all English language learners, so I am finding there is a wide spread of oral and written comprehension - our World Teach orientation empasises group work to increase student talk time and decrease teacher talk time. I suspect there will be a wide range of math abiltiy as well. For the math bods among you - there are added complications of the different math words used here (eg radical means square root,) as well as the appallingly formal complex language in the book emphasising proofs etc. There are no lower level courses here like Foundation in the UK. If you fail you repeat. Kate
We have short days this week as some students have not registered so they have a lot to sort out. The ends of classes can be a bit flexible in timing as someone has to physically go out to ring it, so we have to play games at the end for 5 to 10 minutes until it sounds. My classroom is very hot as it has no fans and no air conditioning. It is noisy as it is at the end of the building near the loos and the gym, so boys tend to hang out in the shade of the roof so that can disturb us. At the end of the day the American football quad warms up and practises right outside my door which sounds like rugby chants, I make a beeline for the other vol's classroom which is blessedly cool and quiet - I can do prep there until we are allowed to leave at 4 pm.
Needless to say that I work most of every evening at present. They are just adjusting to the Core Standards (like National Curriculum) and these do not match the current text books. So we have to plan out our scheme of work carefully - just finished! The other thing is that our students are all English language learners, so I am finding there is a wide spread of oral and written comprehension - our World Teach orientation empasises group work to increase student talk time and decrease teacher talk time. I suspect there will be a wide range of math abiltiy as well. For the math bods among you - there are added complications of the different math words used here (eg radical means square root,) as well as the appallingly formal complex language in the book emphasising proofs etc. There are no lower level courses here like Foundation in the UK. If you fail you repeat. Kate
School day
One of my students has won the long name competition- Faateleinaleviigaileatua - emphasis on the penultimate syllable so it is - Fa a tele ina levi inga ilea TOO a - got that? Glad to say that she uses a shortened version!
Things are settling, so here is a description of my day:
Walk to school for 40 minutes - breezy and pleasant. Get things sorted for the day before lessons start at 8.30. We have 7 periods per day, one I have free and another is lunchtime. So I teach 5 classes about 40 - 50 minutes. I teach the same timetable on Mon Wed Fri, and same classes but mixed around on Tue and Thu. Two are algebra (level like first year A level), three geometry (level like higher GCSE). One class has 28 students, but the others are currently more managable such as 12 - 20. This week and next things may change, so we are doing starter activities - like I am used to. The classes are mixed ages from grade 9- 12, age 14-17, in some ways that is nice as the students do not know each other that well, so we are all getting used to each other.
I do the same routine every session: puzzle, song, name game, instruction, group work, close, game. The students here are very friendly and social - so love to have lots of change in activity. Generally here the teaching is very traditional, lecture, recite, silent work on tasks - so I'm trying to be very structured and clear in my expectations, but also drop in lots of things that challenge students to think and also make it more fun.
Lunch today was pork? in tinned mixed veg, rice, apple sauce, tinned peaches, carton milk. We eat with the students. Nobody goes hungry here. Kate
Things are settling, so here is a description of my day:
Walk to school for 40 minutes - breezy and pleasant. Get things sorted for the day before lessons start at 8.30. We have 7 periods per day, one I have free and another is lunchtime. So I teach 5 classes about 40 - 50 minutes. I teach the same timetable on Mon Wed Fri, and same classes but mixed around on Tue and Thu. Two are algebra (level like first year A level), three geometry (level like higher GCSE). One class has 28 students, but the others are currently more managable such as 12 - 20. This week and next things may change, so we are doing starter activities - like I am used to. The classes are mixed ages from grade 9- 12, age 14-17, in some ways that is nice as the students do not know each other that well, so we are all getting used to each other.
I do the same routine every session: puzzle, song, name game, instruction, group work, close, game. The students here are very friendly and social - so love to have lots of change in activity. Generally here the teaching is very traditional, lecture, recite, silent work on tasks - so I'm trying to be very structured and clear in my expectations, but also drop in lots of things that challenge students to think and also make it more fun.
Lunch today was pork? in tinned mixed veg, rice, apple sauce, tinned peaches, carton milk. We eat with the students. Nobody goes hungry here. Kate
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Contact details change, first day teaching
We have a new P O Box for us volunteers, so please use this new one: P O Box 2596.
Interestingly we don't have an address here - I have only seen a couple of roads which have a name, and houses do not have names or numbers.
The first day went well - I had very structured sessions, all the same. We did a song, a name game and some group work on "What makes a good student?". Tomorrow it is "What makes a good teacher?". Surprising things were that we get not only a free lunch but also a free breakfast if we can get to school early. The good bit is that they give out cartons of milk at lunch, so that reduces the need to carry a lot of drinking water to school. We are advised not to drink the tap water here as there are too many piggeries affecting the ground water quality. Student names have been quite easy so far, they tend to have a shortened version - one student has a massively long name about 20 letters long. Kate
Interestingly we don't have an address here - I have only seen a couple of roads which have a name, and houses do not have names or numbers.
The first day went well - I had very structured sessions, all the same. We did a song, a name game and some group work on "What makes a good student?". Tomorrow it is "What makes a good teacher?". Surprising things were that we get not only a free lunch but also a free breakfast if we can get to school early. The good bit is that they give out cartons of milk at lunch, so that reduces the need to carry a lot of drinking water to school. We are advised not to drink the tap water here as there are too many piggeries affecting the ground water quality. Student names have been quite easy so far, they tend to have a shortened version - one student has a massively long name about 20 letters long. Kate
Monday 13 August 2012
Getting ready for school, birds
After having time off resting this week, I decided to go for school on Monday, so needed to catch up lots of prep work. First the classroom - we not only have to do the cleaning ourselves but we also have to buy the broom! My room has louvred windows which do not close up properly so a lot of dust has blown in over the summer. David helped me to put out the desks - they are heavy affairs with chairs attached. I am glad to have a room which I can call mine, as some other vols have to share rooms, don't know yet, or have a space which is not secure.
Today I found out all things I missed on Friday's Staff Meeting, so I spent the afternoon doing my lesson plans for the week and reading policies and procedures. My school is large so needs to be pretty organised -some other vols seem to have had very little information about what they need to do tomorrow.
Birds: Wattled Honeyeater, Red Vented Bulbul. Kate
Today I found out all things I missed on Friday's Staff Meeting, so I spent the afternoon doing my lesson plans for the week and reading policies and procedures. My school is large so needs to be pretty organised -some other vols seem to have had very little information about what they need to do tomorrow.
Birds: Wattled Honeyeater, Red Vented Bulbul. Kate
Saturday 11 August 2012
david's classroom
Yesterday was a day of meetings with math teachers and Dept of Education people. It took place at Kate's school near the airport and I got to meet several of Kate's colleagues. Today I was back at my school for the day and I learned that I now have a classroom of my own! I thought I was going to be a 'floater' and use other teacher's classrooms at least for a week or two so it's good news. The classroom is better than most and other volunteers may be jealous. However it's quite dirty and there's a lot of clutter and non-math material that I'd like to be rid of. Teachers here are responsible for cleaning- I don't know why the education system can't afford a janitor/security person. Of course we can get the students to do some when they arrive. It's still not obvious which math courses I will be teaching and the students arrive on Monday. But apparently I do have quite a free rein to use the first week on practically anything while all the students eventually turn up.There are only 23 desks in my room so I think my class-size will be much less than in Guyana. And if I'm teaching calculus and/or precalc, then there will likely be very few students which suits me fine. We shall see - it's all rather vague right now. Tomorrow, Saturday I'll go and do some cleaning and then finalise my plan for what to do with the students who are there this week. David
Friday 10 August 2012
Ups and downs
We now have internet in the house which is fantastic - it has taken a while to organise and costs about four times what we pay in the UK for our house - but it is split four ways thankfully. But it will be great for keeping in touch but also being able to access music news and stuff.
The down side is that I've had some problems with my eye - flashers - I went down to the hospital and eye clinic here. They have seen me twice - advising me to have bed rest and keep my eyes still for 5 days. However we've had other more up to date expert advice that I don't need to do that - just avoid heavy lifting. Anyway it has got better following the rest period, so maybe that was useful advice. Now I can get moving a bit more to get ready for school on Monday - it was all on hold which was very frustrating.
I saw my classroom on Friday before I got the bedrest order, and it is the same that the previous volunteer had - a small room right alongside the football area. It does not have many finer points, but I hope I can at least get it swept out before I do my first session. It is 4.5 yards wide and 14 yards long, with blackboards at each end. 26 desk/chair units for students, a teacher desk, chair and a table. That is it. I have to provide my own cleaning materials, stationery. If I want to paint over the dodgy bits on the walls I have to provide my own paint and do it myself. But I will get enough text books for my students to have one at home and at least share at school so that is great. I believe I may get issued with a laptop as they want us to take the register online. That is a worry as my room is not secure as some of the louvred windows are pulled out. Kate
The down side is that I've had some problems with my eye - flashers - I went down to the hospital and eye clinic here. They have seen me twice - advising me to have bed rest and keep my eyes still for 5 days. However we've had other more up to date expert advice that I don't need to do that - just avoid heavy lifting. Anyway it has got better following the rest period, so maybe that was useful advice. Now I can get moving a bit more to get ready for school on Monday - it was all on hold which was very frustrating.
I saw my classroom on Friday before I got the bedrest order, and it is the same that the previous volunteer had - a small room right alongside the football area. It does not have many finer points, but I hope I can at least get it swept out before I do my first session. It is 4.5 yards wide and 14 yards long, with blackboards at each end. 26 desk/chair units for students, a teacher desk, chair and a table. That is it. I have to provide my own cleaning materials, stationery. If I want to paint over the dodgy bits on the walls I have to provide my own paint and do it myself. But I will get enough text books for my students to have one at home and at least share at school so that is great. I believe I may get issued with a laptop as they want us to take the register online. That is a worry as my room is not secure as some of the louvred windows are pulled out. Kate
More about the photos
The views from Nu'uuli School is where we were camping out in classrooms during the three weeks of orientation - also where David is teaching. You'll note the fantastic view, which is even more amazing at 6.15 dawn - but maybe I appreciated that a bit more than David... The bay is very shallow as it is a lagoon with coral reefs out towards the sea. You have to travel quite a way down the coast to find a spot to swim.
The view from Breakers Point is looking from the other side of Pago Pago bay. You'll notice how steep the slopes are - there is only a narrow strip of land where there are buildings - they back onto precipitous rainforest. There is one trail that gets you to the top of the mountain which we hope to do sometime soon.
There's also a photo of one of the Tsunami signs - there are sirens installed and if they go off then you run for high ground.
Kate
The view from Breakers Point is looking from the other side of Pago Pago bay. You'll notice how steep the slopes are - there is only a narrow strip of land where there are buildings - they back onto precipitous rainforest. There is one trail that gets you to the top of the mountain which we hope to do sometime soon.
There's also a photo of one of the Tsunami signs - there are sirens installed and if they go off then you run for high ground.
Kate
Saturday 4 August 2012
a few photos
views from Nu'u'uli school
view from Breaker's point (Pago Pago)
Some trips out
It is not all trips out I promise you - we have also been learning about all sorts of official requirements, and doing our solo lessons. But yesterday we had a trip to the museum, which is a small place but interesting - dug out canoes with bark cloth sails, tattoo explanations, medicinal plants - then a weaving demonstration and a chance to have a try. They make ceremonial fine mats but we were just doing the basics.
Today we went to the National Marine Sanctuary - sounds impressive but it was mainly an excuse for a swim in rough breakers - OK to snorkel for people who are very experienced. But we stayed close in to the shore - saw small blue fish, and bigger striped ones. This afternoon we climbed a trail up to Nu'uuli Falls which was brilliant - a tall thin waterfall with a deep cool pool.
Tomorrow we move out to our accomodation, four of us are sharing a house, but for the first few days we will have four vols staying with us until they can get their transport out to the islands of Manua. We won't have internet at the house, although we are hoping to arrange it. Monday is General Assembly for all school teachers, so we have to dress up in our World Teach uniform.
Kate
Thursday 2 August 2012
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