Monday, I attended my area's preschool graduations, which interestingly are a bigger deal than high school. About a hundred five year olds wearing caps and gowns performed dramas, sang and danced before receiving official certificates from the Ministry of Education. Adorable.
The new education group has arrived! This week, I'm helping with training them. Our aim is to introduce them to the Lesotho educational system as well as giving the trainees a description of their job for the next two years. I'm looking forward to working with them all! They're great and enthusiastic. Very inquisitive about questions ranging from schools to pit latrines. Apparently there's some confusion: latrines here have a seat and are pretty deep pits.
I've applied for libraries for my area schools through the African Library Project. Books (for preschools in my case) are collected though local book drives along with money to ship the books to New Orleans. Then, a ship is loaded with books from around the country on its way to us in Lesotho. Check out http://www.africanlibraryproject.org/ for more information (especially the how to help section!).
By the way, let's go PSU! Wish I could be around to see my alma mater rocking.
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4 comments:
A+ blogging! Excited for the book drive! I think you should not share your scorpion story with the new recruits, because I think its going to cause me insomnia, and I'm sure there aren't any scorpions in Philly!
i'm sure all the meowing from the hungry kittens does not help either...you should have saved him and had a battle royale with the next scorpion you found...
Or how about a kitten vs. scorpion fight? I bet you could sell tickets to that event!
please make it be december 8th.
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