Computer Lab!!!

My travel plans for the August holiday between Term 2 & Term 3 changed; instead of going south to Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River, I made a quick trip to Chicago!! I went to pick up 4 laptops, and relished having some wonderful refreshment and renewal.

The final term of the school year started 2 days ago. Here are pictures of the new "Computer Lab" at Christ's Gift Academy.

Thanks to donations from the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (arranged by their librarian, my dear friend, Eileen Saner) and to my 'relatives', the Wartman family, I was able to bring 4 donated laptops back to Mbita, Kenya, and set up this Computer Lab! Above are some of the Grade 8 typing students taking a break to greet you!  It is so awesome to see how these motivated students are working so hard;  some have made very good progress in even these few days. Now that we have these new computers, by the time of their final exams, every 8th grader will have had at least 5 weeks of daily typing instruction: what a wonderful skill for them to take to high school, in addition to their academic record.

More will follow tomorrow...  the evening flying insects are bombarding me and my computer screen...