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| Leslie Lawther - Naomi's wonderful teacher in AA |
We've been getting ready for our Rwandan Adventure for months, even years, in some ways. But this seems like the right point to start recording thoughts, photos and impressions as our family starts this year of "new experiences." Our blog is named "Rwandan Adventure" because we hope we can keep that perspective as we have these new experiences.
Yesterday Michigan State University announced the grant with this posting in "MSU Today" (click here). Dan Clay is Ruth Ann's advisor at MSU and he has assigned her the role of monitoring and evaluation coordinator for this important coffee research project in Rwanda and Burundi. Yes - the project is designed to include Burundi, too. Thus it was named the "Africa Great Lakes Coffee" project, not the "Rwanda Coffee" project. But then Burundi's president Nkurunziza had to run rough-shod over the constitution, not to mention inspiring brutality against the opposition, and after he got re-elected for a third term, USAID withdrew support for any government related work there. We hope some of the activities can be rescued at some point during the 3 years of the project.
Today we had a great teacher-parent conference with Leslie Lawther, Naomi's teacher in Ann Arbor. She was very encouraging about Naomi being well-prepared to do well at a new school in Kigali and gave her some tips about what to do if the work is too hard or if it's too easy. We also talked about fun ways for Naomi to stay in touch with her classmates back in Ann Arbor if she has time. It's nice that when we get back in Aug. 2016, Naomi can anticipate joining Leslie's class again, since this is a 5th-6th grade classroom and the system at the school is that all kids keep the same teacher for 2 years in a row.
PLEASE NOTE: Postings here will be erratic. Getting ready is going to take a lot of time.
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| Naomi's 5th grade classroom at Ann Arbor Open |
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