Mar
29
Penpals with Busolwe
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | March 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment
My certification practicum starts after the long weekend. I am sitting at a crammed desk with a pile of 15 books: four about literacy, two about science, three about classroom newspapers, two about gardening and plants, and a few others on classroom management and considerations. I have another pile of post- in notes which I […]
Feb
7
Purpose and meaning
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | February 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment
After four hours of a terribly stressful dream about losing my cool as a classroom teacher, I woke up to three alarms that S and I had set the previous night. We caught the 6a.m. bus that took us to the ferry terminal, and arrived in Gibsons, B.C. for our morning presentation at Cedar Grove […]
Mar
15
global community
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment
One of the 15 5-year-old kids we enrolled in our Busolwe summer Kindergarten trial classes recently died. He was too weak to fight off some kind of virus because he already had severe anemia and was quite malnourished. We found out through a phone call to the village confirming the progress of the community projects, […]