I couldn't sleep for the life of me last night. It most likely had something to do with the fact that I napped from 4:30 until 7 due to complete exhaustion from trying to tutor one of my grade 8 math learners how to do double-digit multiplication. I offered her tutoring because I knew that she struggles...but I had never anticipated just how much. After almost 2 hours of trying the same concept from as many different angles and I could conceive of I decided to ...

I am now connected to the internet. Thanks to the help of my Dad, I have a dial-up connection at my house, that is painfully slow by any of your spoiled Western standards, but is so very awesome by my new "African standards". I'm charged as per use, so I won't be an internet junkie by any means, but it will enable me to stay better connected with all of you and have more consistent blogs! That is most likely all that I will really be using it for..tha...

It is storming outside. Storming like you wouldn't imagine-Africa storming. I could tell by the cloud cover that it would rain today, and I could hear a low rumble of thunder in the distance. Then, like a light switch the rain was coming down in buckets and lightening shocked the sky, and I could feel the thunder. It's incredibly loud, the rain here, on my tin roof and through my thin windows, but I love the sound of it. I'm going to be held captive in my house ...

Okay. I'm a little overwhelmed with the task of enveloping all of this past month into one blog entry, so I will start from the top and see how far I get... I left Kelowna first thing in the morning on December 29 and arrived in Washington, D.C. 3 flights and 16 hours later. I spent the night, as I was to meet the WorldTeach group at the airport the following morning. There were over 20 of us that flew together on the brutally long 14-hour flight to Johannesburg...

Hi everyone! I'm sorry that it has taken me a month before I was able to get anything up on my blog. I have been sitting at this computer in my school lab for over half an hour just to be able to load the internet site up and begin typing. Oh dial-up internet... I'm not going to go into great length about my trip so far in this entry. I am just writing to let everyone know that I am alive and well, and have been at my school placement for 2 weeks now. I really l...