Monday, October 22, 2007

Class Presentation




Well, I promised a blog on the phenomenon of White Sunday but first I wanted to show off these pictures of me directing an activity during a presentation to a Year 12 class. The presentation was on the Community Based Fisheries Management Plan system, which is my office’s main focus. Because I had never dealt with a big class of Samoan Secondary students (actually, I don’t think I’ve ever dealt with a big class of seniors anywhere) I opted not to give the whole presentation, but I helped my counterpart with a small part of it. What I learned is that it is hard to get kids to talk in class. Classes in Year 9 and above are conducted in English, so that was not the barrier and next time maybe I’ll try my hand at the whole thing. I’ll post on White Sunday in the next few days. Haha, actually this presentation took place a little over a month ago so let’s hope i’m more prompt with the next one. Anyway, here are the pictures.



Me talking to the kids and trying really, really hard to get ANYONE to answer my question. Also note my killer farmers tan, I’ve been working hard on that.

This is Ferron, one of my counterparts, and the person who actually gave the presentation.

This is Tala, my other counterpart, giving a different presentation to the mass of kids. It was so hot in that room!!

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Scanning

Hello Folks!
So life is pretty calm here these days. For everyone's information, although the test came back negative, i still probably had the mumps. luckily, for those of you too young to have ever come in contact with the disease, it only lasts a week so i was up and running by the time work started.
i have no real news to report except we are expected a new group of trainees next wed which is kind of exciting for those of us here that are new. Soon we won't be the greenest Americans in country. except that we are still relatively clueless as regards many aspects of living in Samoa. Give us time though. i'm sure we'll learn.
in a week and a half is white sunday. a day devoted to the children of samoa. i'm going to be visiting one of my friends in her village so i'll update you on that soon. Fa!