I thought you might like to hear some of the stories from my travel home during the middle of a global pandemic. Some of you may have seen some of the photos on my facebook feed, but I have some more that did not make that feed. I am also going to talk about what…
Tag: Reading with Barnabas Bear
What do you do when it is really hot and you have no a/c-it is not what you think
So temperatures here continue to be in the 90s with high humidity though we have not had any rain this week. As I mentioned before I am forgoing the refrigerator so I can have power for the fan at night. Yes I understand the physics of a fan blowing hot air around but moving hot air…
2019 is done, long live 2020!
Hello everyone and welcome to 2020. Something weird about saying that. I almost feel like I am back in the 1980s and that is a commercial for a home computer from Tandy at Radio Shack. Regardless of my old person issues, we are here in 2020. I wanted to take a moment and reflect on…
Mid-First Semester Break 2019
We have finished our Mid-First Semester Testing and officially closed the school for their normal two week break. There was some good and bad for the whole of the last two weeks. First let me apologize for no blog last week as the internet was insufficient to post pictures with the blog. We had our first…
Weekly photo contest, hiring a teacher and finally over the flu
Photo A Photo B Photo C Photo D Photo E This week I had several photos I liked so I am going to let you choose the best. Please vote so I know what kind of photos you like best. Finally, after about 5 weeks I can finally say I feel like I have kicked…
School update as Finish up a month back at school
Thank you to everyone who has been concerned for my health and praying. The affects of the flu are gone except for a nagging sore throat, dry cough that is most likely being exacerbated by the constant cooking fire smoke and dust in the air. I had a good week at the school.The school year is…
Some weeks I wonder if I should even write a blog
How to best describe my first week back at site in 2019. How about two words: Sprite Zero. Don’t understand? I love Coke Zero. finding it here was a true blessing for my mental state. I look forward to going into town once a week, getting some attempt at western food and a cold Coke…
Math Competition and School Meetings
We continue with the advanced pace at the school heading to the end of the school year. This week we had our normal events like “Reading with Barnabas” and classes, but we added in our Math Competition which I have been working on for the last two months and a sort of surprise school parent…
Spelling Bee a success!!!! Plus Rashida Jones reads to our kids this week.
It seems every week I have a lot of items to go over in this blog. The first is about the spelling competition I have been preparing for the last two months has finally happened and I have to say it was a big success. I wish I had not been in charge so I…
Teaching Duty, Kids are going to Vomit, How to make a Virtual Mission Trip and Sarah Silverman reads to our Kids
So this week was another very full week at the school. It started with end of month testing and finished with a tribal conflict in the village that required Police presence. Yeah that kind of fun. sometimes it is just exhausting to be at school The first three days were filled with the kids taking…
Steve and Barnabas 