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07/17/08 It is Thursday morning here and classes have just started. The teachers are winding up their lessons for the session today and tomorrow. Some of the classes have been very challenging for the teachers. The 1st/2nd grade class has a broad range of ages and English skills, so the class is being broken up into smaller groups. The 5th/6th grade class loves to challenge the teachers authority, so classroom control has been a major focus. Each of us has been challenged in our own hearts and minds in dealing with the spiritual situation here. It has been a time of stretching and growth in cross-cultural understanding, dealing with situations and attitudes from the students that we have never encountered before. For example, one teacher was using an illustration of the mother in a home doing the cooking and cleaning. One of the students piped up, "No, mothers don't do that, maids and cooks do that work." As the trip winds down we are looking forward to our return home, back to familiar surroundings, sleeping in our own beds, and seeing our family and friends. We look forward to sharing our experiences here with everyone who has made this trip possible. Geoff Hetzel for the NA Literacy team --------------------------------- 07/15/08 Just a quick report from the Literacy Team in North Africa . . . We are doing well and continuing to enjoy working with the children here. All the teachers and their assistants are doing an amazing job of teaching. The children are becoming bonded to their teachers. One student said, "I LOVE my teacher!" Something special that has happened this year is that we have had many invitations to parents' homes for dinner and/or tea. For example, last night, we visited for about five hours at the home of one of the eighth graders. We were welcomed there with great joy and extended invitations in future years. Also, as we have visited in homes, we have learned of more individuals with shared beliefs. We hope that many of the North Africans we have made friends with will come to visit us in the United States. We have also enjoyed spending evenings with many workers here who are part of our extended Fullerton community. They have been greatly encouraged by our presence. It was also a joy to come together for a meeting together on the weekend. We met workers from around the world, including recent arrivals.. One particular need to think about is for the complete repair of little Adham's finger. He injured his finger on a playground and had to be rushed to the hospital. He is doing just fine, but the hope is that the tip of his finger will heal because it was without blood supply for a period of time. We have also had the opportunity to meet individually with many of the school staff, to hear more about the vision of the school, the needs, and to share writing curriculum with them. We have also had opportunities to meet with the new headmaster and recruiters. We have some individuals on our short-term team who are giving serious consideration to long-term work in this part of the world, in schools and/or orphanages, so these teachers are getting specific information to help them with future service decisions. What a delight it is to serve here and thank you to our family back home for all your thoughts and your generous support to enable us to bring this summer school program. The community is so appreciative. Also, everyone has stayed well on this trip, but we have had a few who have experienced a few problems for about 12 hours. Keep those in your thoughts.. :) With deepest affection for our brothers and sisters, --------------------------------- 07/13/08 Both North Africa teams were together for the weekend. Friday night we all had dinner at the home of Saturday's tour guide. Actually, it was at the home of his mom. It was a very delicious couscous and other stuff. His wife might know Father, and one of our team had a wonderful time speaking Spanish to her. But of course, it was a light conversation. Think of her...it isn't easy for her. Saturday of the team went on the tour of the medina others spent the day with Steve and Yvonne and their 2 + year old son, Adham. We saw them again this morning at a Sunday morning meeting for brothers from various places. We sang songs and the thoughts came about so many here who aren't in the family. It's heartbreaking. Tell Father to please send help. Now it's time to go to sleep and get up for another week of work. We are doing quite well. We're loving it here and hoping some of you wish you were here, so that you can come next time!!! --------------------------------- 07/10/08 We are into the 4th day of classes and the teachers are forming good relationships with their students. Most of the classes are small enough that the teachers have learned all their students names. Here are a few examples of the experiences the teachers are having with their students. In Mrs. Pence's 3rd/4th grade class one of her students presented her with a homemade necklace. When Mrs. Pence asked "Why are you giving me this?" her student responded, "Because you are talking about friendship and I wanted to show you my friendship." Omar, a student in Miss Castillo's 1st/2nd grade class, stated at recess "Teacher, I love this school better than my other school. I love singing. I love reading. I love drawing. I love stories. We do sooo much!" Another first grade student, when leaving the classroom for a reading group with Mrs. Hetzel, ran back to Miss Castillo and gave her a big hug and kissed her on the cheek. The students are enjoying computer lab and recess as well. Mr. Pence was helping a student in the computer lab and got a big hug from one of the students when they excitedly finished up their assignment. On the playground Mr. Hetzel played "horse" with one of the older students and was only able to come out of it with a 1-1 tie. Everyone is doing well and the weather is still great. For the NA Literacy team, --------------------------------- 07/09/08 Hello, --------------------------------- 07/08/08 Greetings from North Africa! Today is Tuesday, and we've had two days now with our wonderful children. Lisa Shimada and I have 15 children in our class. One activity we did yesterday was to eat chocolate chip cookies and talk about how friends are the chocolate chips in the cookies of life. (Friendship is the theme of our classroom.) Friends are also the soccer balls in the game of life. They are the flowers in the garden of life...etc. Each child then thought of one friend and wrote about that person. I modeled much of it on the board with Mrs. Shimada as my friend, but then I erased it as the children worked on their own. We wanted to see the level at which the children wrote on their own. We found out rather quickly that Ines speaks very little English and writes even less, so Lisa spent most of the morning teaching Ines one-on-one while I worked with the other children, and we expect this situation to continue. We both left class yesterday feeling that the day went very well! This morning as I waited downstairs for the children to arrive, Fatine J. (We have two girls named Fatine) came to me and gave me a necklace which looked like it might be her handiwork. She said that it was because I gave her a chocolate chip cookie yesterday, and it was also because we are learning about friendship and she wanted to give it to me as a gesture of friendship. (Of course, she didn't use the word 'gesture', but that was the idea.) Okay, folks, that made my day. We came to teach reading and writing, but we also wanted to build friendships, and here on the second day a little girl gives me a gesture of friendship. A picture of Fatine J. and I, wearing the necklace, is attached. Another picture is of one girl whispering into the ear of another. This is Ines whispering to Fatine J, who translated for Ines into English when it was Ines' turn to share. I won't go into all the academic stuff we did, or you'd get bored. But I will tell you that I was having fun teaching the children how to move words around when we change a statement into a question, and how to use context to understand new vocabulary. You teachers out there can imagine the fun times! I love it! Jeff has been enjoying being with the kids at recess time and being in charge of the computer lab when the kids come in. Today after school he had a very good time chatting with two of the security guards in French. He understood pretty much everything that they said. Fun times! He says that Sala and Tamil were very forgiving of his bad French. After school (9am-12 noon), we had a North African lunch of chicken and potatoes in a sauce that included green olives. Yum!! Then the rest of the group went out to see some sights that we've seen before, but we stayed 'home' because our international student who is from here was planning to come visit us. He expected to be here a few hours ago, but something came up to make him late. We hope he comes in time to take us to see some sights that are new to us. Maybe we can even have dinner at their house tonight. We don't know if this is the night we're invited for or if another night is better. Jeff and Barb for the Literacy team --------------------------------- 07/06/08 We arrived safely with no incidents. All luggage came off the plane in good shape, and the teachers are finishing up the room setup. We are just about to sit down to a nice hot bowl of soup. Care to join us? With our love and appreciation, ---------------------------------
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