The week has come to a close as Friday night is now upon South Sudan. The sky is dark, there is no light in my Tukul other than the glow from my computer screen. The battery powered fan is perhaps the greatest invention... ever!
I don't really have too much to say today, beyond the fact that I now finally have some more pictures of my time here. My camera has been sitting idle with the battery dead for about 2 weeks now, but yesterday I finally got it charged and went on a picture taking roll. I decided to take some pictures of where I live, some of the kids and the view, and also to prove that I am actually doing some work I took some pictures of the students. Which means obviously I wasn't teaching at the time, but you kind of get the point.
So today I taught at Hay Malakal, a Seventh Day Adventist school today. Had around 10 students come out. It was kind of a weird day as I did not want to be there, but regardless I was able to teach about recycling today... maybe inspired the students to start thinking more about throwing trash on the side of the road. Also got to teach about soil erosion and conservation... really riveting topics. Final topic of discussion today, drumroll please, circumcision. Got to love that CRE. All three weeks so far, sex or sexual organs have come up in that class. I think we are almost past this unit. At least that is my hope. The most amusing but frustrating part of teaching today though was some younger students who came in and were super distracting. I was able to laugh it off for the most part, but man it sure was not easy.
The teaching continued tonight too as I had a student in secondary school stop by my place to work on geography. I was so happy to see an entire unit covering a case study of BC and our use of resources. I told him to study that one closely.
Oh ya... Bible Study, this week by candlelight!
This is the second week of trying out Bible study in Moru and English and well it went a bit better this time I think. We moved Bible study to Scott's house, and made some pizza which really only us North Americans ate, and then worshiped and read the bible together. Essentially what we ended up doing is picking a verse, have someone read it in Moru and then try to explain it in English. This allowed us all to wrestle with what the verse was really saying. It was pretty fun. 7 people were there this Thursday, let's see how it grows. So please pray that God will take that seed and let it grow.
Other than that here are some of the adorable children that live near me or on the same plot as me.
Also I want to take this boy home with me... his name is Conda.
Finally, please pray as I am trying to organize a workshop to train students on how to study better and prepare well for exams.
Love you all,
Thomas
So today I taught at Hay Malakal, a Seventh Day Adventist school today. Had around 10 students come out. It was kind of a weird day as I did not want to be there, but regardless I was able to teach about recycling today... maybe inspired the students to start thinking more about throwing trash on the side of the road. Also got to teach about soil erosion and conservation... really riveting topics. Final topic of discussion today, drumroll please, circumcision. Got to love that CRE. All three weeks so far, sex or sexual organs have come up in that class. I think we are almost past this unit. At least that is my hope. The most amusing but frustrating part of teaching today though was some younger students who came in and were super distracting. I was able to laugh it off for the most part, but man it sure was not easy.
The teaching continued tonight too as I had a student in secondary school stop by my place to work on geography. I was so happy to see an entire unit covering a case study of BC and our use of resources. I told him to study that one closely.Oh ya... Bible Study, this week by candlelight!
This is the second week of trying out Bible study in Moru and English and well it went a bit better this time I think. We moved Bible study to Scott's house, and made some pizza which really only us North Americans ate, and then worshiped and read the bible together. Essentially what we ended up doing is picking a verse, have someone read it in Moru and then try to explain it in English. This allowed us all to wrestle with what the verse was really saying. It was pretty fun. 7 people were there this Thursday, let's see how it grows. So please pray that God will take that seed and let it grow.
Other than that here are some of the adorable children that live near me or on the same plot as me.Also I want to take this boy home with me... his name is Conda.
Finally, please pray as I am trying to organize a workshop to train students on how to study better and prepare well for exams.
Love you all,
Thomas
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