This week has been hot, busy and rainy. Our reading classes are going great so far and the students seem to be enjoying their lessons. David has been asked to teach down at St. John's University
(where we were two years ago) a curriculum class in the graduate department of education. He has accepted and will start in about one week. This week we are featuring the secretary class that David is helping with another teacher and our trip to the Catholic Vocational School to retrieve our rocking chair and to order benches for a village church near by.
Much to our disappointment the chair was not completed so we will return again. I don't mind because the grounds are beautiful and I love walking around and viewing all the orchards, vineyards, animals and gardens. The nuns are great to us when we come and go out of their way to be helpful, even though we speak no Italian and they only speak Swahili and Italian. For me it is a little like going to Galloway Gardens in Georgia in the spring time. There is so much poverty here (about 99%) and little beauty to look at that just driving through their grounds brings a restful spirit awake inside of me. I have included some pictures for all to see.
The other area we wanted to feature this week is the secretary classroom. The girls are being trained on manual typewriters because most offices still do not have electricity or power they can count on. We have one very nice brand new computer lab (12 new ones) but no printers, and an older computer lab that is open to all students. The older computer lab has a variety of different word processing programs with no printer hook-ups at present. Teaching students during a computer lab time is very difficult due to the variety of software programs on each computer BUT David is up to challenge with another staff member and they are forging ahead with the lessons.
We had a terrible storm yesterday in the late afternoon and lost electrical power until around noon today (Saturday). Moses and Ruth and little Grace came over last night for dinner and we had to eat in the dark with lightening flashing all around. Fun for Grace but washing dishing in the dark leaves a lot of food on the plates!
Please keep us in your prayers......................Charlotte and David Reid
Secretary Students
Part of vocational school
Catholic School area
David's chair (rocker)
Workshop area
David ordering church benches for his village
church (they sat on blocks or rocks on a dirt floor).
David, Eugenia, myself at reception area of vocational school.
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