Another adventurous day in Senchi Ferry

Prepared by Patty Davidson

The group went in 3 different directions this morning with Eddie leading the charge to the construction site at 7:30am. Our 4 nursing volunteers were soon to follow and all returned with a great sense of accomplishment and exhaustion after working in the heat all morning. Eddie was covered from head to toe in dirt, perspiration and mortar after hauling large pots of mortar for the local workers to help expedite the work they were doing. Everyone was impressed with the expertise and commitment of the local workers.

Maggie was only one to head out to the Nanamo School for teaching but it sounds like she was a great contributor to the English curriculum. To her surprise she was thrown right into the job of teaching prepositions, verbs and phrasal verbs.

Christy and I were stationed in the new computer lab at the library all morning teaching classes as they arrived. We didn’t get the prompt 8am start we expected because the kids were called upon to sweep the grounds and pick up rubbish. Once we finally had them in the lab, they clustered into groups of 3 or 4 per computer. The lesson of the day was learning how to type a letter in Word and for the more advanced we introduced character formats like bold, underline and fonts. They’ve been learning computer theory in the classroom but have had little practical experience so basics like learning how to use the shift key, backspace and getting the cursor in the right spot before pressing enter was a challenge.

In the afternoon we went to the Arts and Crafts market in Aburi and picked up masks, necklaces, knapsacks and more, but the humorous part of that trip was when 4 girls in the van had a bathroom call that would not wait so we had to stop and allow them to relieve themselves on the side of the road.

Another adventurous day in Senchi Ferry.