Bridging Culture. Working Together.

Before I begin, I want you to know that I am making some generalizations in some of my statements below that do not apply to everyone or everything.  These are only my thoughts and reflections and I have much more to learn! Something that has been on my mind lately is the word suffering. Often, while walking down the street in Sierra Leone or in Ghana, you will see people in the road, selling water, plantain chips, biscuits, phone credit, and much more.  You can almost buy anything you need from a car window.  But, I often find myself thinking "their job must be miserable."  Standing out in the hot blazing sun all day, walking in and out of rows of cars every time the light is red, trying to make a small living.  Some would look at these people and say they are suffering.  It is easy for even myself to think these people must be suffering if this is what they must do to earn a living.  But the street sellers on the street might look at someone who is paralyzed and begging o

I spent the last two days of school with almost no sleep, writing out 42 report cards, under candlelight, for the first term marks for Class III.   I never fully understood the blessing of technology until now.   In the U.S School system, you do not have to calculate your students’ marks by hand, the computer will do everything for you.   You can enter their attendance on the computer instead of by hand.   Technology of course has its downfalls too, but looking at it from this perspective, it could make the school system here much more efficient and effective.   I have made a template on Microsoft Excel where the teachers can enter   their marks for all 13 of the subjects for each student for each exam.   I am now working on teaching a few of them how to enter their marks and enter the formulas to calculate the total and average marks for each exam.   If we can master this, it could save them so much time and effort.   It will take time to learn the computer, seeing as many