Classes start at 7:30 and run until 2pm, when the students get a break for Lunch. After lunch, the Enrichment Program starts which provides some skill training (such as carpentry and film studio) and other classes (science, music …)
Monday, June 17, 2013
From Joe: View from the Economics class
Economics class being taught be “Teacher” Namahoro. Today’s session focused on VAT (Value added Tax).
Thursday, June 13, 2013
From Joe: T - minus 8 hours and counting
Getting close to lift-off. Leaving for Rwanda in a few hours. Anxious and nervous about going to Rwanda. Ready to go, just don’t know what to expect, even though many people have told me what to expect.
Re-flight routine this morning was like any other day at the Croasdale household. What you would expect for a couple married 22+ years with two teenagers:
- Sherri (my wife) made me sign a power of attorney “… just in case….” Yes Sherri, the insurance is paid up too.
- Ally (my 16 year old daughter) gave me a very long hug goodbye. She wanted to remind me that she is still my little girl even though yesterday she just announced that she has an upper classman as a boy-friend. Thanks Ally, that will make me sleep well at night.
- Brendan (19 year old son) managed a good bye from his man cave upstairs. But he has been doing his own charitable work since he got home from school.
- And to top it off, I broke my “indestructible suitcase” leaving the house.
Although I want to help out wherever I can on this trip, I know I will walk away with much more than this 50 year old can give. I hope to use my work experience to help the school financially and also to use my muscle (stop laughing Angela !!!) to do some physical labor. I plan to attend a few classes while I am there and to introduce Frisbee to the school (and Al Berg).
Thanks for reading my first blog ever.
More to come (with pictures) once we arrive. I promise there will be no “dying albatross” videos of any of us.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
From Justice : Back to work!
The mighty Val Zhupan arrived on Friday night and he soon got us back to work.
Saturday was very productive and we roped in two interns from Carnegie Mellon to assist us with installing wireless access points, repairing PC's, setting up backups for their servers.
Deo in the blue t shirt is the main IT guy at ASYV and pretty much single handedly manages the whole IT infrastructure.
Me working hard as usual. It looks like i'm playing with my fingers, but if you look very very closely, I’m actually manually putting a network cable together. J That's Val's photography skills for you
That's better, l I look a bit more productive here.
From Justice : Time Out!!
Taking a much needed break after all the hard work we've been doing.
On the way to a local village called Rubona which is about a mile away from ASYV.
Some local ladies who for some reason couldn’t stop smiling at me J
There was a dance competition going on at the market. We tried to get Jim to join in but he made some excuse about having no rhythm. They were only kids, personally I think he would have tore the roof down with his moves......
It was all uphill on the way back to ASYV. I'm not sure if we were walking slowly or they were moving fast but we kept getting overtaken by people with produce and water from the village.
Kids from the local primary school. Their favorite words were 'Good Morning' and 'How are you'. Too cute!!
From Justice : Is there a spy amongst us???
Al Berg doing his thing on the computer. I think he’s a little confused as to who he works for? J
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