And back in Lilongwe for another full, full, full weekend! And will be back again in two weeks…for Halloween and finishing proposals and summer school planning stuff.
The past weeks have been strangely stressful – and yet I am the happiest and most at peace I have been thus far in my time here. One of the worst/best days was last week on Tuesday. I arrived at school early to discuss with the only other teacher that is here with me for the next two weeks about how we wanted to run classes. Getting there the proctors for the form4 governmental exams [MSCE] were planning for the day and they realized that they were missing some crucial papers. So…naturally the other teacher volunteered to ride his bike to the nearest city to get them. And thus Madame Keller was left in charge of the entire school one her own for the day. To be honest it went remarkably well. One of those forced leadership situations. The kids were relatively well behaved and I taught until almost noon. But after that I was exhausted. But I got to use my new chalkboards. The form4 students came over in the afternoon to go over math stuff before they wrote their exam the following day.
Yesterday we had a really great event for CampSky. We created a restaurant at the country director's house and served a lovely dinner to expats in the community. Dinner was amazing…cooked by amazing cooks, there were raffles and scholarships and a bar and a dessert table. It was glorious…exhausting, but we raised over a thousand dollars and had a great time too. The only stress factor being that our main table lighting were candles…and gales of wind blew around all day. So me nervous about people being able to see their food stressed me out a tad.
For those that like pictures, I’ve uploaded new ones to the gmail photo album – only a few but you can have a looksie. I hope that everything is well in your part of the world and I am thinking of you!
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