About seven weeks ago I posted about my frustrations of dealing with a particular person in authority who evidently wanted a bribe before they would do their job. Well… today I finally got the letter I was after! I wouldn’t have got through it without my colleague Catherine, regular ‘office banter’, and persistently calling on them. Admittedly I wrote the letter for them and saved it on their computer at their request. I was told after I left the office that I completely missed the bribe request at the end: “You give this small person something and then we are done with everything” (referring to his colleague who was much shorter than him). Didn’t even hear it, hence my non-response (probably best). But, with letter in hand, out we walked.
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Dan, Myron and Jody
Earlier days and happier times with these pigs… before swine fever.
Our brave Myron!
A demonstration lesson with P1.
Jody with P1 class teachers and the lovely P1 class (not all 142 present, but many of them!)
Our first set of published phonics readers!
Look who found a big rat!
School classroom built from church ruins.
Always a teacher… helping out children with some extra homework during a teaching visit to South Sudan.
A P1 pupils’ written work on a slate during a phonics lesson.
Dan and Myron on the road…
Teacher training…
Dan, JB and Bear.
Children putting into practise what their teachers have learnt – practical activities!
Jody teaching student teachers at the local Primary Teacher’s College about how to read aloud
On a refreshing weekend away to Sipi Falls.
Jody sharing at the local primary teacher’s college on reading fluency.
Sharing some laughs over reading games.
Dan and Myron after a bike ride.
Joanne and Dan
Hippo’ing around at mini golf.
Using local materials for teacher training…
Anyone for a game of football? There’s no electricity in this village in South Sudan but there is a generator and football hall – what more do you need?
Dan and Myron at Fort Porta.The Recreation Project
Dan and Jodes... in Gulu, Uganda 