There will be other important initial tasks too, however, like administering the Early Grade Reading Assessment, designed to both gather data on early grade literacy in Uganda and inform my decision on which students to select for reading intervention, and a week-long HIV workshop at the end of February. We are also currently attending a School Health and Reading Program (SHARP) workshop. SHARP is a new program set out by the Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES - also, so many acronyms!) and USAID to promote literacy, and my school has been selected as one of the pilot schools.
So there are many exciting things, hopefully, to come, but for now, it is mostly the settling-in period. That means that there are pictures of our house also coming soon! For now though, here are some snapshots of our transition to becoming official volunteers.
Street meat!
Amanda in her tree-climbing lion costume. Yay for opening the bags we stored away a week into country!
Our awesome, official invites.
On our way!
Singing the National Anthem, and beautifully, I might add.
Kris and three other friends of ours represented our group with an awesome spoken word.
Southwest represents with the Ambassador and Country Director!
Our amazing language trainers.
Kris's counterpart and my supervisor.
This is what happens when Codie steals my camera.
Oh, the North.
We're thinking of starting "Dipping Around the World" themed pictures.
Celebrating our momentous occasion, Titanic-style.
Enjoying our moment with some awesome Peeps that Kris's mom sent to us!
"We need someone with the boldness of a pioneer, the resourcefulness of an inventor, and the faith of a sword swallower."
- Ambassador DeLisi, quoting a Peace Corps saying
So much awesomeness! And, peeps on a stick? Really?
ReplyDeleteI am so surprised that those peeps came through intact! Enjoy yourselves and be safe. Love you much!
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