Now that I am back in America, Africa is a distant-- yet extremely fond-- memory. I think about my students often, and relish the few moments I have had with the other volunteers since we've been back.
I still love teaching. And boy, is it a different ball game in America! But while we are on the subject....
A few months ago, I had an email in my inbox from SOHI explaining about a new project they are working on: a computer lab at the School for the Deaf in Ghana. Words cannot express the avenues that having computer skills could pave for those beautiful African students. I was determined to jump on board. And luckily, so did my third graders.
ANNOUNCING:
The FRIENDS to FRIENDS Concert
at Canyon Rim Academy
February 3, 2010
7:00 pm
Please come to see my class put on a little benefit concert in an effort to earn money for a laptop to give to Signs of Hope International. They have been working really hard, and it is sure to be a wonderful time! Call or email me for the address and more details.
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." --Anne Frank
I'm Brynn.
Here's the story...
Over the seven-week break this summer, I was having that "what-am-I-going-to-do-after-graduation" discussion with my mom. I expressed that I did not just want to sit around and work a dead-end job before I start teaching in the fall. We discussed some options, and I began looking for an adventure.
A few weeks later, I was reading in our little community newspaper, The Holladay-Cottonwood Journal, about how the cast and crew of "Signing Time" (sign language videos for kids) went to Africa to meet and serve the Deaf community of students in Ghana. They went with a program called Signs of Hope International. I casually looked up the listed website.
I watched the video and thought about it. I read the testimonials and thought about it. I looked at the pictures and thought about it. I printed out a mission application and thought about it.
Needless to say, I applied. The application process was interesting (and a little stressful: I still don't know my blood type). They called for a phone interview. I waited. And hoped.
Then, they called to tell me I had been accepted! And now I am going to Africa in May to teach in a primary school for the Deaf. Thrilling! Frightening! Exciting! And let me say this: Heavenly Father answers prayers.
Now all I have to worry about is money and malaria. Africa! Drums. Baboons. Teaching. Students. Sign Language. I am just amazed.
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1 comment:
What a great way to help your former students and teach your current ones about reaching within to help those less fortunate.
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