In addition to all of the class
sessions we've had with Dr. Thuma, the hospital rounds, and visiting with
people at the fires, Dr. Mylin has been making arrangements for visits to the
local schools. Today we visited the Francis Davidson school, started by the
first missionary women to settle in Macha area and plant the mission. We were
able to sit in on two grade 10 biology classes. It was quite fun to see what
the students were learning, and to see two different teaching styles. One
interesting thing is that neither of the teachers are from this area of Zambia,
and so they didn't know the local chitonga dialect. This made for a fun
classroom interaction where the teacher would say the English word- 'maggot'
and would ask for the tonga word to help the class understand. Education is
vitally important for the future success of these students, it was fun to be
able to observe where this happens.
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| A grade 10 classroom at Francis Davidson |
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Dr. Larry Mylin by one of the many termite mounds
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Dr. Mylin also found a local store that will sell us locally made woven baskets and other crafts. We walked there for a look-see after our morning at the school- we walked out with stuffs!
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| Jackie and I were practicing the Zambian way of bringing our baskets home. |
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| Jackie Jess and Dan waiting for the craft shop to open. |
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