April Updates

I had the privilege of a holiday in Greece over Easter. It meant skipping school for a week before Easter and it meant missing out on Easter and Bangla New Year at LAMB - two of my favourite events.
At the school two students have left to a new school opened just outside LAMB by a former teacher. It is sad to see children go, but we pray that another school will mean more children get a good education here.
On Thursday, 23 April, we interviewed potential teacher candidates. We need more teachers, mainly in the upper grades but find it very difficult to find qualified Christians who can master the subjects, teach them in English and are willing to work for what we can pay.
We need to work on developing our own staff, please pray for opportunities for training, and wisdom to know how to use all the wonderful resources we have.
If this seems like a list of prayer requests to you, pray!

Blessings

For the past month I have had the privilege to again teach some of the younger children. It has been such great fun to have both grade 1 and grade 2 for one lesson every week doing a ‘Writing English’ class.
I enjoy it much, probably because the children are so eager to learn and so open to any idea I present. Their learning targets have been set by Bani, their English teacher. I get to make up stories together with them, talk about things they did or describe life as it looks from the perspective of someone who is seven or eight years old.
The children seem to like it, I love it and they might get a little closer to remembering capital letters, full stops and how to spell lizard, but not always.