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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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Well today was a fairly normal day for teaching. I just finished up a lot of my curriculum, leaving mostly fun stuff for the last day of class I would have on Wednesday. When I got back to Lucinda’s, I focused my time on photographing the women’s arts and crafts (they make jewelry boxes, bracelets, pins, hats, necklackes, and all sorts of things) for posting on the website. Our idea is to start selling the items online to make more of a profit for the women. I think it’s an excellent idea, although I’m unsure of how shipping and online payment would work. So we’ll continue to look into that.
Later that today, we met some more human rights volunteers who were working at Lucinda’s that day. One of them told me she went to UNC Asheville; how cool is that?! Even cooler, we got talking some more and apparently she is Mrs. Shelley (the GHS art teacher!)’s niece! Small world, I guess. She was really freaked out that I knew her aunt, and I even had some video of Mrs. Shelley (from the yearbook DVD) to prove it.
The rest of the day, I worked on trying to fix the internet. After multiple calls to several different tech support lines, I was unable to fix it. This did not look good.
That evening, I got a text message from Lucinda saying we had hit our internet cap of 4 GB in just 2 days. I was shocked; this is more internet than even I have used on my personal internet card in 3 weeks! The only way we could use up internet that quickly was if someone was video chatting or watching TV over the internet for a long time. I don’t understand how that could have happened at all; it’s really really weird. Nonetheless, we’re out of internet, and that means that I’m primarily out of work for one of my two jobs (maintaining the internet). Maybe we’ll be able to collect money around the office and get it back.. Here’s hoping.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
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LDOC (Last Day of Classes) for my kids at Aysha’s – although this wasn’t like a Duke LDOC (Jay Sean sadly didn’t show). We had fun listening to music and competing in typing games. The kids took turns trying to type particular sentences as fast as possible, and most of them really enjoyed it. I gave them two chances; one to type the ‘correct’ way, and one to type anyway they wanted. Sadly, they all typed faster when they didn’t use the standard 10-finger approach I had been teaching them. I hope they understand the importance of it though.
Later, I distributed certificates and took pictures with them all, in a small ‘graduation ceremony’. At the end though, one student didn’t get a certificate; apparently I forgot to print hers.. I was really really upset that I forgot, and I hope she wasn’t too sad. I still took a picture with her and told her she’d get her certificate tomorrow. We then took a group picture which I think I’m going to try to put in the newspaper. Finally, the kids got up and gave a speech thanking me for all my hard work and dedication, telling me how much they’d miss me. They then presented me with a small gift bag with some nice deodorant and other things. I was touched; in such a short time, I felt like I had built a real lasting relationship with these kids. I was legitimately sad to be leaving them. I told them to come visit me at Lucinda’s, and said that I’d try to come visit them too.
My Graduates!!
That night, we visited the Melting Pot again for live music and socializing. It was, as expected, a really fun and relaxed night. I also took Ryan, my new housemate, and he seemed to have a good time as well. I got up on stage and performed ‘Used to Love U’ (John Legend) and ‘Break Your Heart’ (Taio Cruz, version inspired by Edie Wellman), and apparently did pretty well, but the drums that were backing me up were a bit loud. Overall, still a lot of fun, and we ended it with the traditional McDrive (of course). WORLD CUP IN 2 DAYS?! Oh man.
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