Friday Afternoon in the Library

Another Friday afternoon in the library... Benson got a few selfies in. In the first one, you can see that I actually do work around here sometimes. :)  Below, Benson and Lee are just being silly (which is on brand for them).  

Friday afternoon is club time at school, and the science club has asked to hold meetings in the library.  Baton, who is in form 3, is leading the group. 

A little Friday afternoon relaxation... 

 

More Papers to Grade...

The life of a teacher...more exams to grade!  I'm trying to get through another stack this week, for both form 1 and form 3.  These are exams that I wrote myself, so I really should have known better than to give form one so much writing to do; it takes a while to mark!  

Below, dry season continues.  We keep thinking the rains will come any time, but for now it's still dusty and brown.  I continue to be happy about the lack of mud, though.  The field across the road from me seems to be growing weeds, despite the lack of rain.  A lot of the farmers are starting to plow up their fields, ready to plant corn quickly as soon as the rains do start.  

 

Lowering the Flag

Every evening at exactly 6 pm, we hear a whistle blow.  It's time for the lowering of the flag.  If anyone is outside, they should stop and stand still and quiet until it is lowered.  The students who are Scouts (a Tanzanian boy scout/girl scout sort of organization) take care of the flag-raising and lowering; Bahati in form four is this years Scout Commander, and he's the one lowering the flag today. I happened to be in the administration building at 6 today, so I got a photo of him at work out of the door.  

As you can see, the Tanzanian flag is green, blue, black and yellow.  The green is for agriculture, the blue is for water (the Indian Ocean, as well as the many lakes in Tanzania, especially the enormous Lake Victoria on the western border), the black is for the people, and the yellow is for the mineral resources of the country.  

I was in the library until late tonight, working on various projects and helping students with things.  Someone picked up my phone and got this photo of me chatting with Isack Jeremia.  Fridays are usually long days! 

 

Wednesday Afternoon with Form One

Welcome to Wednesday afternoon with form one!  We just finished up today's class, and I let them get a few photos in the classroom.  It's always good to get some form one photos, so that we will have photos of them little and cute to embarrass them with in the slideshow when they graduate.  ;)  Above, Ariel, Johnson and Hussein just finished their group work.  Below, Brenda and Careen got a selfie.  Ezekiel hid his face, though.  

Lissa posed for the camera as Benson took a few photos while I helped a few people finish up their assignments.  We've been working on descriptive writing, so today I brought a whole stack of magazine to class.  They had to pick out a person in a photo in the magazine and write a descriptive paragraph of that person.  

Benson got a selfie with me, and then with various other classmates.  I've deleted most of them from this post; there were a lot. Teenagers love selfies everywhere in the world!