I’m Back!

It seems that blog writing has taken a backseat for most in our busy schedule but seeing that I had some downtime I decided I would write the blog for the second day in a row.

Today we woke up and had our earliest pickup time of the entire trip (7:30). It almost felt like a normal school morning but luckily we had a bit more fun in store. For the second day in a row we visited Munali Secondary School to do more computer training with the Munali monitors.  Because of the amount of students at the school it splits its schedule into morning and afternoon classes. The more advanced students go to classes in the morning and the less advanced students go to classes in the afternoon. Because the monitors are evenly dispersed between all levels we held our first session from 9-11 and our second from 1-3 in order to accommodate for all monitors.

For the first hour of the training we work on teaching the students touch typing. Many do not have the daily access to computers like we do so they are not often able to practice their typing skills. We started this part of the training with a short presentation by Mercy and then taught them about the home row keys and some of the other easy letters such as h and e. Some of the exercises we did included blind folding the students and then reading the exercises to them in order to make sure they were not cheating and looking down at the keys as they were typing.

For the second hour of the training we listened to another presentation by Mercy about internet safety practices.  (In short, there is no such thing as a free Ipad on the internet.)  Second we started the training that we will be doing with them for Microsoft excel programs. This included measuring everyone’s height and wingspans and starting to enter the information into a data sheet. We did the same thing in both of the Munali monitors trainings.

The final training that we did today was with the special needs school at Munali. We spent about an hour and a half at their computer lab doing more touch typing training and then we started teaching them about the parts of a letter and how to format one correctly. Mercy, Gigi, and Grace led the charge being some of our more advanced sign language “speakers.”

Another highlight of today was the visits we made to the campuses “tuck” shops. Tuck shops are basically snack shops that are available to the students throughout the day. They are basically the SAAS equivalent to the Chatterbox but in my opinion the snacks are much better. Some of our favorites were the popcorn (Emma and Jack), the meat pies (Gigi), and the fried pastry dough (Jack, Carly, Mercy, and many others). We were graciously introduced to these by one of our friends Joshua (a monitor from Munali last year).

Reed has recovered from her illness but is continuing to watch her wheat intake in order to keep her immune system healthy.

Right now most of us are huddled around the T.V. watching SPAIN hopefully BEAT Portugal. We’ll keep you updated with more blog posts and we leave for safari in (3) days!!!!!

Shout out to Yaniv Shier! It’s me Jack from your Spanish Class!

Over and Out!

~Jack a.k.a. Rabbid Cat