Setting Up for Service at School

This morning our students were busy lesson planning and getting ready to teach their classes beginning tomorrow morning at 9:00 am.

After lunch we bused everyone over to the school where we will be working - St. Matthew's Government School. We broke up into two groups and while one group set up their classrooms, the other met with the local Peace Corp volunteer from St Matthew's Village. He gave them additional information about the area and also showed them a bit of the village and some of the houses. Then we rotated the groups, so everyone had a chance to set up and also meet with Chase for the village tour.

St. Matthew's Village

Village Water Well

The school was in a bit of disarray because a few of the classrooms had been painted by a previous volunteer group, so all the chairs were in weird piles throughout the school. After an afternoon of rearranging, we are all set up for camp in the classrooms tomorrow. We will be teaching in 5 classrooms and will have to wait until tomorrow to see how many children from the local villages will come. We are hoping for a full house. We'll report back tomorrow so stay tuned.

The "before" picture. The classrooms look great now.

Our photo intern, Brooklyn took a lot of great shots today. Since we were prepping the school we took advantage of the camera not being a distraction. During lesson time we will have to be more discrete with the camera. We will post the photos we've taken thus far to our Facebook page. If you haven't followed our page, now's the time. We have all kinds of interesting things coming up!

The play field at St. Matthew's School

We finally got a group picture with all 26 GLA students!