10/30/09 I know it’s been a while since I posted on the blog, and I have a lot to tell you about so I’ll be as concise as possible. For starters, I still haven’t begun teaching and we still don’t have a new headmaster yet. Progress is being made on one of those issues though. The form 1 students have finally started to report to school. This week was mid-terms, so hopefully the form 1s will have orientation next week after the break. It looks like I’ll get 4 to 5 weeks of teaching in this term, which is the same [View Full Entry]

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10/9/09 How’s it going everybody? I’m doing great incase you were wondering. This past week has been pretty relaxed. As I mentioned last time, I’m teaching the form 1 students again and they aren’t at school yet so I didn’t teach this week. This week we did receive the list of students placed to our school though, so that’s a step in the right direction. They haven’t given a date for the form 1s to report to school yet, but it should be within the next two weeks. In reality, I’ll probably start actually teaching after the midterm brea [View Full Entry]

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9/30/09 Hello again everybody. I know it’s been a long time since I last posted anything on the blog, but I’ll fill you in on everything important that has happened. As most of you know, I was able to fly home for Sarah and Anthony’s wedding. Congrats, you two. Welcome to the family Anthony. I hope you know what you got yourself into. It was great to see all my family and friends. Thank you to everyone that made my trip home as enjoyable as it was. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be home for good in about 10 months. [View Full Entry]

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8/14/09 Hey everybody. I hope it hasn’t been too long since I wrote last, but there hasn’t really been any breaking news from my end of the world lately. When I wrote last, I was in the middle of marking exams. I am proud to say that I buckled down and got all my exams marked by the end of the term. Unfortunately I wasn’t done with all my school work when I finished actually marking the exams. Then, I had to go through all the exams and add up the scores from each question to get the total score for [View Full Entry]

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7/25/09 Alright, I know it’s been a long time since I posted on the blog, but I’ve been busy shaking hands with the President so you’ll have to excuse me. I guess I’ll start with my experience with the President since it is definitely the most exciting thing that’s happened to me in the past few weeks, although seeing Harry Potter in a REAL theater was a close second, but I’ll get to that later. As many of you know, President Obama made his first visit to Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa after going to Russia and the G8 summit in Italy. [View Full Entry]

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7/6/09 Last week was fairly uneventful for the most part. We were on midterm break until Thursday so the school campus was empty. With no classes it gave me plenty of time to mark my midterm exams. Even though there were only 4 questions on the exam, it still took me hours and hours to do all the marking and record the students’ grades. Technically, the midterm break ended on Tuesday, but Wednesday was July 1, which is Republic Day in Ghana so there was no school. Classes were supposed to start again on Thursday, but as I predicted, that didn’t [View Full Entry]

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6/29/09 I’d have to say that this was a pretty amazing week. There are two things in particular that made this week so great. The first thing was a successful STARS Conference with minimal problems. The second thing was the outstanding performances of the USA Men’s National team that took them to the final of FIFA’s Confederations Cup. I guess I’ll start with the STARS Conference. After all the preparations it was exciting to actually get the conference underway. There were a total of 60 students that participated in the leadership conference from 30 sc [View Full Entry]

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6/5/09 It was just another busy week at school. On Tuesday the girls’ soccer team had an inter-school tournament in Obuasi. The day before the competition, the sports master asked me if I was going to go to the games. I told him that I had to teach, but that if class was cancelled so the students could attend, then I would go. Class wasn’t cancelled on Tuesday, but the sports master informed me that he gave my name to the headmaster that I would be going with the team. I wanted to go to the games anyway, and I didn’t [View Full Entry]

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5/29/09 Busy… That pretty much sums up my last two weeks. So far, it hasn’t been as difficult to keep all my classes on the same page as I thought it would be. Since all four of my classes are all form 1 core math, I have the same amount of lesson planning as I’ve had the last two terms. The only difference is that now I have to teach the same material four times instead of just twice. Compared to most of the other teachers my schedule is extremely full, but I’m curious how it would compare to the schedule [View Full Entry]

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5/17/09 It has been a while since the last time I wrote and there have been a few events I need to tell you about. First off, we finally had our staff meeting to open the term. The meeting wasn’t very successful for a couple reasons though. For one thing, there were only 10 teachers in attendance out of the 25 or so that we have. The other reason is that the meeting had to be cut short because of an emergency at a house that some of the teachers live. A boy that used to be a student at ABSEC [View Full Entry]

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