Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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my tenth week in Cameroon

Hello,

the week did not bring much new with it. The computer classes begin to continue far too late and the children have little time on the computer. On Monday, the hour then fell even from all over, because the children came so late. After the children have written in the last week of the first set in a Word document, they were allowed this week, a slightly longer sentence (A computer is an electrical device, that accepts data (input) and is able to process the data into information called Write output). Needed for the students at least 10 minutes. There were problems - as in the previous week - the use of special keys, so when writing capital letters, spaces or parentheses. The short time is simply not enough to remember the relevant features and at home, most children have no opportunity to practice computer use.
was in German class, I practiced with the children of class 5b, the numbers from 1 to 100, and beyond. Here, the students quickly understood the practical construction of the figures and could thus also beyond the numbers cent, to express such as 464th
The School on Wheels project will continue as usual and we often make the same with the students. The students, however, bring homework when I have not yet occurred. Either there is no homework or students they do it at home too. Last week was the School on Wheels project, however, again particularly stressful because we were only three of us. Of the Dutch volunteer is traveling with his sister in Cameroon and could not help this. Fortunately, the School on Wheels project is on Thursday then failed, so we had time in the afternoon to pack our things for the weekend in Bafoussam and visit the Internet Cafe. Sorry, did not work the whole week, the Internet Cafe by UAC, because the new provider, the "lines" (the actually no lines but a radio links) are not connected has. A, problem that I am also not unknown in Germany, where a provider changes may partially result in a week-long loss of all telephone and Internet connections. Really wanted to believe this was my mentor Barclay, however. He sees the lack of punctuality is a problem for the development of Cameroon.
After computer time on Thursday afternoon was our shortened work week is over and we look forward to the weekend in Bafoussam, which begins tomorrow, Friday with a long bus trip.

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