This week, as the title suggests was the last week of
school. Monday and Tuesday, we still taught as usual. From Wednesday onward,
the teachers were marking tests and writing reports, so the rest of the week
wasn’t exactly classified as “school days”.
Near our classroom, they are
building a library – a project funded by an American organisation called ‘Peacecorp’.
About 30 boxes of books have been donated with many different subjects that
cover all areas of life. This library is not exclusively for the school, but
for the whole community of Tautu. So us, it being near to school holidays with
not much school work to do, have decided that we would categorise and catalogue
all the books. Alicja has been working on cataloguing all the non-fiction book
while Gareth has been cataloguing all the fiction books and sorting them into
children, teen, adult categories. This requires both of us to type the name and
author of each book. So far, we are up to about 650 and are only about halfway.
We happened to find another stash of books in the previous library today which
added a lot to our workload (IF ANYONE WANTS TO COME AND HELP US, PLEASE DO!).
We are hoping to have all the books sorted by the end of the holidays because
our classroom is inundated with piles of boxes, books and dust.
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| The work of the library - the American Volunteer on the roof |
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| Santa's helpers |
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| The children are very excited for their new library |
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| We also helped with some of the painting yesterday |
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| Getting our librarian on! |
Anyway, enough about tedious library work. We are planning
to go to Southwest Bay this Sunday with our Japanese friend, Sho and his other
friend Nao. Down South there is a very nice waterfall and so we are going to
stay a few days in a nearby village. We are travelling via police escort (the
police have a regular boat to and from the village and we know a local
policeman who gave us the opportunity). Next week we are looking forward to a
double island wedding and are very excited for the visit from our parents and
two others from Hervey Bay Uniting Church.
Not much more to add today, we’ll blog again in a few weeks
when we get to Lakatoro again.
4 comments:
3Gareth and Alicja
I was always amazed at the diversity of tasks that we undertake that seems outside of our experience. Like setting up a library. I ran a student bakery, set up a photo club and even helped mark some home economic papers. It is always a challenge but rewarding. South West Bay is beautiful. I stayed at Lorlow for a week one holidays. I am glad to hear how well things are going and you are in my prayers.
PS did you have a party for Ps Collen's birthday
Hi Brian,
he has been away for the past 2 weeks. Didn't know it was his birthday in that time. Looking forward to it :)
Gareth and Alicja! We miss you both so much and we all say hello from the youth group.
Its great reading about all your adventures, and building a library! Wow, I can just imagine how much you are contributing to the village. Stay safe, you'll be in my prayers!
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