Lest Gus think I’m being judgmental and mean, I wanted to write about a few things that didn’t suck. First: my French class right now with Ryan, Peter, and G., the trainer. G. gives us some extremely awesome exercises. Today we had to use the future, so she had us write horoscopes. She also gave […]
Today was my first day of teaching. I had one hour of lecture and two hours of lab. I am exhausted. I prepared fairly well I think; I was only a few minutes under on my lecture. But the students got a lot further in the lab than I expected. There were a few students […]
I have lessons tomorrow: two cinquieme classes (roughly 7th grade?) and one troisieme class (roughly 9th?). They number the grades in reverse here, so that "first grade" (première) is at the top. Well, in the Francophone system — the Anglophone system is the reverse, so Form I is the first class you take at a […]
Someone organized for tonight a "Pirate Party" which included everyone bringing their external hard drives and swapping stuff. Naturally it turns out that my Western Digital Passport broke sometime between leaving New York and now. Naturally I disassembled it with some force, and was left with a problem and some pieces. The problem is that […]
Finally, Camtel came through. All right. Here’s another couple pictures. Jared and Jenny with the Organization director for Cameroon. My booboo looks much like Jared’s. Me trying to help cook. My host family thought this was noteworthy enough to borrow my camera to take a picture with. Me and Claude. My new Africtures (long-sleeved model). […]
Today we received our bicycles and that means class got out "earlier". My host family said something about going to a funeral, which could be interesting but would interfere with other social activities that are happening today, so I’m hanging out here where there is reasonable Internet and thought I’d upload some photos. Figure 1 […]
Observation continues. I don’t know why, but it’s the most exhausting part of training so far. Perhaps that is why each day I want to go to the bar and drink. Then again, maybe it is merely my latent alcoholism coming to the fore. Yesterday I watched the above-named lesson ("Chapter 1 continued"). I have […]
First off, happy birthday to Chiz (whose birthday it was yesterday). Also, happy birthday to Esther, whose birthday it is today. Sorry I forgot to say something. Secondly, the model school started today. Actually started, although opening ceremonies were yesterday, because today I observed my first classes. Thoughts: J-P, who is the trainer for ICT […]
This is the report I’m going to send to the director of the education program. Preface I had a successful trip to my post and saw a lot of things that I thought you would like to know about, so I decided to draw up my findings in a report form. Housing I did not […]
So, although I bought a USB key from Camtel, I am not having any luck getting it to work. Sigh. This morning started off OK. Highlights: the most delicious pineapple (anana) I have ever had, with hints of vanilla, orange, and coffee. Also, as we left, J-C broke out into "Hello Goodbye" [is that the […]