# 1
I'm working with a group of students to create a Learning and Information Technology Center at our school.
Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, I meet with different groups of students and teachers for computer literacy lessons at our school. The first trimester was spent on Microsoft Word and Excel basics.
The second trimester will be dedicated to PowerPoint and the Internet, as well as intensive training for advanced students. These lucky (and fantastic) students will become peer-educators for students during the third trimester and into the summer.
We're also seeking connections between students/teachers in Ditinn with students/teachers in the U.S. If you want to jump on this bandwagon, please send me an e-mail! The goal is to supplement French/English language learning, as well as to engage our respective students in cultural exchange.
#2
Every week I don my stereotypical art teacher hat (by hat, I mean loose-fitting linen pants), and talk to kids about perspective and dimensions and feelings and using art as a mode of expression and protest.
It's glorious and strange. Most of these students have never touched a colored pencil, and now I have them drawing houses and human forms while listening to MIA, Florence and the Machine, Lupe Fiasco and Nneka.
They love it, as do I. Hopefully, these students will help to paint some educational murals at our high school and around town (country maps, malaria prevention/awareness, hygienic practices, etc).
If you ever feel inclined to send colored pencils or fine-tipped sharpies my way, I will forever hold you in a very special place in my heart. (I'll do that anyway, but the art supplies may inspire me to write you an ode or something.)
#3
Since August I have offered courses on entrepreneurship.
The training program was designed by a dedicated and astonishingly energetic group of Community and Economic Development volunteers, and I attended a "train the trainers" workshop this past Spring.
The 13-session program includes homework assignments, interactive classroom discussions, and real-life entrepreneur presentations all with the goal of providing youth with skills in marketing, accounting, creativity and more in order to make their own business ventures successful!
In May, we'll be hosting a West-Africa Training of Trainers Workshop for the YETP program. Peace Corps Guinea has invited volunteers, staff and host-country nationals from all over West-Africa to participate!
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