Busy…

Sorry I haven’t made any posts recently, but I’ve been a little busy.  I was in Pretoria for over a week taking care of doctor’s appointments and PC meetings.  Since my arrival back in Acornhoek, I’ve been busy at the schools trying to give workshops before the school year is over.  Hope all is well…will [...]

Back online…wahoo!

Wahoo…my computer parts arrived and I’ve been back online for a couple of weeks now, so I thought I should update my blog…I’m pretty behind with it.  I’m going to start adding posts gradually and backdating them.  I hope all of you are doing well.

Electrical problems…

How exciting….I have internet again! WAHOO!!  I got the  new adapter and battery from my parents today…I’m glad that I was correct in guessing that it was an adapter issue….good thing I’m such a computer geek huh? LOL! I had my parents to send me a surge protector along with the new adapter and battery, [...]

My computer died

Since the electric went off here the other day, I can no longer get my computer to work. I believe that when the electric came back on it gave my computer a surge & burnt out my laptop adapter. My parents are mailing me a new one, however that will take several weeks to receive. [...]

Wow…what a day…

Today I went into both the grade R (kindergarten) classes and taught the first lesson from the math packets that I made.  The teachers had to translate of course…but I made a lot of gestures and such…so that the kids could understand me.  I wanted to teach the first lesson, so that the teachers would [...]

Making Math Packets

Whew….I’m tired again today…but I wanted to give an update on the school… On Monday night, I made up a bunch of worksheets for the grade one and grade R classes and saved them on my computer. Then on Tuesday morning at the staff meeting (there is a staff meeting every morning at 7:30 before [...]

My day…

Today wasn’t very eventful…well it’s only 4pm now…this morning I got up around 8am and had a cup of coffee and two biscuits for breakfast.  Then I burned my garbage in the burning pit.  Then I got my backpack (the Nike one…I use it every day…I’m so glad I brought it) and walked to the [...]

Decorating….

Part of an email that I sent earlier…. I have my bedroom (backroom) totally decorated now.  I have my bed and wardrobe setup and all my clothes put away in the wardrobe.  I situated my bed under a window, my wardrobe is in the corner, and I have some plastic shelves that all my bathroom\hygiene [...]

TALE OF THE ATTACKING SPIDER

TALE OF THE ATTACKING SPIDER BY: SHERRY WOODEN, PCV What you are about to read is based on a TRUE story!!! Once upon a time there was a Peace Corps Volunteer serving in Acornhoek, South Africa.  The volunteer, Malebo, lived in a two room concrete home.  The walls of the home were concrete, the floor [...]

Don’t dye your hair when you don’t have plumbing….

Monday, I met two of the other volunteers in Hoedspruit, and we did some shopping at a grocery store that’s similar (well almost) to grocery stores in the states.  The store doesn’t have the same brands or the same selection, but it’s nicer than the one in Acornhoek.  Since I couldn’t find a store that [...]