Mijts Blog

This week I have decided to also start contributing to our blog – just to post what I have been doing to fill in MY time in Kokopo.
On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday I went to a local Secondary school where I am doing volunteer work – teaching 5 classes a week of Year 10 remedial English. Resources are scarce but I found some abridged copies of ‘Born Free’ in the storeroom so we are working with that. The girls are really enjoying the book and the classes – especially as I was able to take in some photos that I took whilst I was on my African safari last year. They were quite amazed and fascinated when I showed these two in particular – generated a lot of discusson!

On the three days that I am at the school I also teach a small group of 4 and 5 year olds (mostly children and grandchildren of teachers) for about one and a half hours each day. These little ones are VERY cute, speak next to no English and I have very little Tok Pisin – makes for interesting sessions. They can now say ‘My name is…’; ‘Good Morning Maria’; ‘I can run.’;’I can hop.’; ‘I can skip.’ and sentences like that. Glad there are no photos of me demonstrating these actions (as I do!)

I usually play golf on wednesday but the lady I play with was out of PNG on holidays so instead, I got out my box of paper scraps and made some cards.Thought I might share them with you.