The Education group had an early rise this morning for there 8 o' clock tour of the ISO, or International School of Ouaga, also known as our neighbors across the street (literally). Doug, Angela, Katie, Lauren, and Dani were shown around the school by the Elementary principle, Angel Prince. The ISO is an English speaking school, serving grades Pre-K through 12th with students from over 28 different countries. As exciting as this was for everyone, Dani and Lauren really took interest within the school because they both feel called to work outside of the United States, teaching at a school like ISO.
While the Education group was on their tour, the Computing group headed back to SIM to continue their work on all of the computers for John. On todays list was manually cleaning the computers to rid them of all the dust that surrounds every inch of this country (or Africa for that matter).
We also installed new RAM in some of the machines to make them faster so the Students and Staff can use them with ease. When we surveyed the computers yesterday, we had a few with some bugs, hoping to use our technical skills in the hardware to make the problems go away, but for two of our computers, it just wasn't enough. Appropriate burials were held for Louise and Jack, the two computers that just couldn't pull through.
After a great lunch and some reading, Angela, Katie, Lauren, Dani, Kara, and Austin talked to a missionary kid who is also a student at ISO interested in attending Messiah. She enjoyed hearing about Messiah students personally rather than reading about it in a brochure.
When the computing students were out buying parts for the Netbooks for IMS with John, Katie, Lauren, and Dani met an African women, Rebecca who taught them how to make a traditional African meal of vegatable sauce over rice. First they went to the market, where conviently every one spoke moore (more-ay) so what little french they knew, did not help them. Thankfully Rebecca spoke moore and they gathered up all of there ingredients. The vegatable sauce included seven different vegatables: cabbage, onion, zuccinni, squash, tomatoes, carrots, and egglplant with parsley and garlic to taste, along with beef. The sauce was served over rice and could possibly be voted the best meal we've had here so far. In the end it was a great experience for her to share her recipe with us, along with us showing her the world of gummy bears, her new favorite candy.
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Can't wait for Katie to make the veg stew here! :) <3 Mom
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