Youth Outreach Center III

The past two months have brought the outreach center to completion and is bearing fruit so to speak. When I wrote last, the floor was still hardening and much work was still to be done. The first two weeks of March involved moving everything back into the room and restoring it to it's previous state. We were also able to move the computers back to the delight of all the learners because the computers haven't lived there since last year.

My Future My Choice was able to use the room for the remaining sessions they had together. The format of the program isn't suited for a classroom with all its rows of chairs and desks. The activities are much better suited to an open area with space to move around.

I put some book shelves together to make room for a donation of books we kindly received in December from Carly. We've been slowly adding them into circulation with the help of my learner librarians (Namlish is so very much fine).

Learners have been using the computers to type up articles for our school newspaper. I show them how to turn the computer on, log in, and start up word. Their first question is always, "Sir, how do I make the letters big?" I show them the magic of shift and then, without fail, proceed to type their whole article IN CAPS! So many kids do this and yet I continually forget to remind them that they only need to capitalize their first letter otherwise they're shouting!

Next term we'll be reviving the AIDS awareness club since My Future My Choice is over. I'll also be starting a science club, finally! When my parents visited they gave me a galileoscope, which is a small telescope to celebrate Galileo's invention in 1609. I put it together one afternoon with some learners. It was great, we talked all about concave versus convex lenses and even made some ray diagrams. However, telescopes during the day are boring. So we're planning on staying at school one night and watching the stars and planets.


Keep on cleaning on keeping on


Yay for new books!


The books of Matteus


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