This Week In Balaka

The Form 3 students have been complaining that they have nothing to show that they are actually learning computers.  An obvious and fundamental lesson in computers that would be perfect for such a situation is printing.  The difficulty in teaching how to print is that it requires the prescence of an actual printer which my "computer lab" is unfortunately lacking.  This week I worked it our for them to save letters they had typed to their parents on a floppy disk and use the printer in the secondary office.  With the class size as big as it is and the size of the office being...well, the size of an office, I had to take the students groups of four.  It just so happens that the office is on the other end of the school and just about as far away from the computer lab as it can be so I got a little extra exercise this week walking back and forth.  I told them they needed to walk to the office at least as fast as I was (they have slow poke issues) and it was funny watching them struggle to keep up.  Some were dissappointed that the colours they chose didn't show up even though I explained many times previously that it was a black and white printer, but they got over it quickly and were really excited to use the printer.

 

Also this week, Fr. Andrew and Fr. Oswald from Nkhota Kota were on their way to Blantyre to buy 500 shoes for their primary students so they stopped in for a couple of nights.  Fr. Andrew always makes things interesting and Fr. Oswald really enjoyed playing UNO after dinner.