Poorhouse Salamasina fair
5/15 need pics of culture day
Today was culture day. A big event. Parents came to see. Students all had specially made outfits. The house design (salamasina) that Mr. Fualau created on the computer became the design that was painted onto the lavalavas the students wore. It was good to see students improvise a little and put on a show. The audience many good laughs. There are some hams in our school. …seems to be the students that get hit the most.
Today was a good day. After school, I fia moe(slept), then did the rugby/cardio practice. That always makes my back feel better. But my quads have been sore since I started participating in rugby practices. My muscles are not used to that kind of work out anymore.
We had a “party” during dinner tonight, meaning drink lots of beer. I drank 4 small bottles, then I was hungry, so I ate taro, pig, palusami, and chop sui. It was pretty good. I’m still not used to Samoan food though. I dream of arby’s sandwiches…
I’m defrosting my fridge right now because group79 has their early service training next week, and then 2 weeks of break. So I won’t be using my room for 3 weeks.
It’s time to do the PC reports…quarter one is way overdue, but we just got the forms. Hmmmmm…working with the American Government. ..fun. I think I’m making good progress…teaching students, teaching teachers at my school + matautu teachers, starting a reading program next term, starting teaching year 12 students next term. I will be busy.
5/14/08 …salamasinaScreenShot
It has been an interesting experience finding out what the teachers at school want help with regarding computers. They did not hand me a book of forms and documents and say “we want to learn how to make these.” It has been an unearthing process. From the very first project, the Lefaga district meeting agenda (with underlining, bolding, centering, capital letters, and lists), to the project I just showed Mr. Fualau tonight—how to create a design for our “house.” I’m in the house called “Salamasina.” The design uses WordArt, Text Boxes, and AutoShapes. We haven’t done this for the teachers class on Mondays yet, but hopefully next term. We are in the last week of term one, and big preparations for Culture Day on Thursday. Next term I get to start doing the same process with teachers at Matautu Primary School. I will be teaching there after school one day a week.
5/7
Tonight for dinner my spoon held a mixture of ta’amu (like taro, but a bigger plant), pi supo (corned beefàeaten by the 4pound size), supo povi (soup with pieces of beef, rice, and ramen noodles). I’d take a picture, but my camera’s rechargeable batteries are uma (not working) ahhhhhhhhhhh…another cheap(er) Chinese product—but I got this one in America.
Today I tasted yummy…Jane who own some fales by the river, made a chocolate and banana milkshake—with real milk, that was really shaken. In other words a thick and creamy chocolate concoction. On another food noteàlast night I ate dinner with Jane and Olsen. Jane made steak and eggs burgersà which also included baby tomatoes, lettuce (real lettuce, not cabbage), avocado, fried onions, ketchup, mayonnaise, and pepper. I had two—they were both very tasty. Satisfied deeply. Wished I didn’t have to ride my bike back to my school building at 9pm.
We haven’t had the teacher’s computer training for the last few weeks, but I’ve been helping the science teacher, Mr. Fualau. Tonight was using OCR (scanning text and graphics) to make a copy of his letter from the Ministry of education. He has done the most with computers and his school stuff.
5/6
I just finished a book called “the poorhouse fair” by John Updike. It was OK. Here are some sentences I liked:
In heaven there are no appearances.
There is infinitely more nothing in the universe than anything else.
There is no goodness without belief.
Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.
The dawn of evening, the bright trousers and luminous skirts brushing past him, the weight of silver in his pocket, the smell of crushed grass beneath him, and the net of conversations spread above his head seemed to make good the fantastic promise that someday he would inherit the delights of adulthood.
5/4
The day after a yummy Mexican lunch and dinner. Some PCVs celebrated cinco demyo
I read a recent speech by Barack Obama. He talked a lot about race and one of his ‘former’ pastors. He also said one of the time old sayings “the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday.” Hmmm…I haven’t heard that time old saying. Am I under a rock? I wonder what kind of rock.
I looked through one of the national geographic photographic anthologies “through the lens” very nice pictures. Good inspiration for more pictures. Now I just need my battery charger to work.
Today was culture day. A big event. Parents came to see. Students all had specially made outfits. The house design (salamasina) that Mr. Fualau created on the computer became the design that was painted onto the lavalavas the students wore. It was good to see students improvise a little and put on a show. The audience many good laughs. There are some hams in our school. …seems to be the students that get hit the most.
Today was a good day. After school, I fia moe(slept), then did the rugby/cardio practice. That always makes my back feel better. But my quads have been sore since I started participating in rugby practices. My muscles are not used to that kind of work out anymore.
We had a “party” during dinner tonight, meaning drink lots of beer. I drank 4 small bottles, then I was hungry, so I ate taro, pig, palusami, and chop sui. It was pretty good. I’m still not used to Samoan food though. I dream of arby’s sandwiches…
I’m defrosting my fridge right now because group79 has their early service training next week, and then 2 weeks of break. So I won’t be using my room for 3 weeks.
It’s time to do the PC reports…quarter one is way overdue, but we just got the forms. Hmmmmm…working with the American Government. ..fun. I think I’m making good progress…teaching students, teaching teachers at my school + matautu teachers, starting a reading program next term, starting teaching year 12 students next term. I will be busy.
5/14/08 …salamasinaScreenShot
It has been an interesting experience finding out what the teachers at school want help with regarding computers. They did not hand me a book of forms and documents and say “we want to learn how to make these.” It has been an unearthing process. From the very first project, the Lefaga district meeting agenda (with underlining, bolding, centering, capital letters, and lists), to the project I just showed Mr. Fualau tonight—how to create a design for our “house.” I’m in the house called “Salamasina.” The design uses WordArt, Text Boxes, and AutoShapes. We haven’t done this for the teachers class on Mondays yet, but hopefully next term. We are in the last week of term one, and big preparations for Culture Day on Thursday. Next term I get to start doing the same process with teachers at Matautu Primary School. I will be teaching there after school one day a week.
5/7
Tonight for dinner my spoon held a mixture of ta’amu (like taro, but a bigger plant), pi supo (corned beefàeaten by the 4pound size), supo povi (soup with pieces of beef, rice, and ramen noodles). I’d take a picture, but my camera’s rechargeable batteries are uma (not working) ahhhhhhhhhhh…another cheap(er) Chinese product—but I got this one in America.
Today I tasted yummy…Jane who own some fales by the river, made a chocolate and banana milkshake—with real milk, that was really shaken. In other words a thick and creamy chocolate concoction. On another food noteàlast night I ate dinner with Jane and Olsen. Jane made steak and eggs burgersà which also included baby tomatoes, lettuce (real lettuce, not cabbage), avocado, fried onions, ketchup, mayonnaise, and pepper. I had two—they were both very tasty. Satisfied deeply. Wished I didn’t have to ride my bike back to my school building at 9pm.
We haven’t had the teacher’s computer training for the last few weeks, but I’ve been helping the science teacher, Mr. Fualau. Tonight was using OCR (scanning text and graphics) to make a copy of his letter from the Ministry of education. He has done the most with computers and his school stuff.
5/6
I just finished a book called “the poorhouse fair” by John Updike. It was OK. Here are some sentences I liked:
In heaven there are no appearances.
There is infinitely more nothing in the universe than anything else.
There is no goodness without belief.
Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.
The dawn of evening, the bright trousers and luminous skirts brushing past him, the weight of silver in his pocket, the smell of crushed grass beneath him, and the net of conversations spread above his head seemed to make good the fantastic promise that someday he would inherit the delights of adulthood.
5/4
The day after a yummy Mexican lunch and dinner. Some PCVs celebrated cinco demyo
I read a recent speech by Barack Obama. He talked a lot about race and one of his ‘former’ pastors. He also said one of the time old sayings “the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday.” Hmmm…I haven’t heard that time old saying. Am I under a rock? I wonder what kind of rock.
I looked through one of the national geographic photographic anthologies “through the lens” very nice pictures. Good inspiration for more pictures. Now I just need my battery charger to work.
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