Orientation, March 2011

I continue to work with Eliz. on her math.  Usually she plays with friends in the gym every evening.  

I enjoyed a phone call to our friend Alain Kabore living in Mississippi to be sure about Moore lyrics for some songs we will sing in Cultural Worship on Sunday night.  Every Sunday night we have a cultural worship that features a different region of the world. The last one will be Subsaharan Africa, and we hope to go outside for ours. the high Sun. will only be 62, so we will certainly need our jackets.  I will help lead 2 songs, and Bart is supposed to "preach." He says the only person who will know if he makes a mistake or forgets what he wanted to say and then just starts counting in Moore will be me.  

For Mom's birthday this year, I made a donation for the renovation of Sanyati Hospital, it is in Zimbabwe.  I felt led to choose it because of several things---one of our missionaries--Archie Dunaway--was murdered there during the Zimbabwe uprising when  the gov't was overthrown.  Baker Hill well knew Archie's son, John, who passed away a couple of years ago, and has always spoken highly of him. And I have met a former Zimbabwe MK here who will be serving overseas with his wife. So, that's why I chose Sanyati---with Zimbabwe on my mind, and I know it's still an important part of strategy supported by our Africa director. .

Typed up our Moore songs tonight and am now working on email.  I pulled together my homeschooling order and have sent it off to the homeschooling consultant for our region. 

Eliz. is doing fine with her math.  We probably won't get any science done unless they have a few basic home science experiment books at our MK library in Ouaga. We could do those in July and talk about what she learns.   Next year she will take pre-chem for 1 semester and pre-biology for 1 semester with Benton Hewitt from an on-line academy. They won't be able to participate in a live class but will be turning in homework and taking quizzes and tests. We will continue the Saxon math and do Language Arts/History with a program called Tapestry of Grace.  I told Mona I would try it one year, and if it had enough rigor or I could bolster it enough, then I would be content to use it for the 2 years after.  Mona has a lot of resources for different programs, and that will help.  

I would like for Eliz. to take an Adobe Photoshop class sometime, but right now, her 8th grade year is full, and we don't have enough budget for it.  On-line classes can be expensive.

Well, better go get ready for tomorrow as I am leading our Subsaharan worship.  Every Tues.--Fri. we all worship together--17 of us, including children.  I need to review what we go over and choose a song to sing.

 Eliz. and company loved playing Capture the Flag under the inspired leadership of Mr. J.

 The cafeteria--great food prepared week after week---hard to lose weight even if there is no dessert or soda!

 Elizabeth and little sis Daly in the cafeteria.

Eliz. finally decides she wants to learn in the quilting quad 2 weeks before Orientation is over!

 Ever the photo monger--fun at Orientation.   Don't know if we got a squirrel in the pict. or not.  There's quite a population there.

Eliz. and "little sis Daly" traipsing about the Orientation grounds