First 4 days

In my first 4 days I went to 5 schools which is more than most people do the whole time they are here! HOM has 4 primary schools (preK-6th grade) under its umbrella. I am living working at the Ecole Christienne Terre Noire (Christian School in Terre Noir) so that will be number 1. With Diane here as well as Bill and Linda Glass (president and first lady of HOM) we made visits to the other schools. Linda takes pictures of each of the kids that has a sponsor so that their sponsors get updated pictures with the kids’ report cards each year.

So we went the school at Ebo Beach (there is no beach) to get more pictures and saw some of the hurricane damage as the roof has been taken off the church/school.

The 3rd grade teacher showed me the French lesson they were working on.


The next day we went to the school at Repatriate to get more pictures and do a valentine’s day project with the kids (for sponsors).

That school is all preschool so far—they are adorable!! HOM is undertaking to build a high school (7th-13th grade—not a typo, there are 13 grades) so that they can better follow the kids that have sponsorships. Thus on Friday we went to visit 2 existing HS to get some feedback from the principals about how to get and keep good teachers, layout, curriculum, etc. They were good and interesting visits showing real foresight and planning and aspirations as the earthquake in 2010 did so much damage that the schools are still trying to recover.