Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Yesterday's exasperation turned to hope today as teachers really started embracing the concepts and thinking about how they could apply to their teaching. We taught advanced Microsoft suite and some fun gaming tools to use with their students for geography (Seterra), typing (tux typing), and math (tux math).

We had a lot of software to download onto the computers after class and as installs typically go, we had some issues. As a result we left late from the school and drove our dirt road back into the gorgeous Africa sunset. We passed people who were also walking home trying to catch the last hours of the sun before they went home to no electricity.

Today Gita and I had the absolute pleasure of spending a few moments with the children of the school who embraced our iPhone cameras when we showed them pictures of themselves and most fun videos we took of them. They swarmed us with giggles and keen interest. My blonde hair seemed to be a novelty they also wanted to touch and at one point I did feel a little hand swipe the back of my head. They were so endearing. Some of them walk up to 10km (7miles) each way to school each day!

It is almost 11pm and we are just wrapping up our lesson plans for tomorrow and the last of the software downloads. It's been a long day.:)

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