Take a peek here

For all those wondering what is happening this weekend in The Gambia, take a peek here

For all those wondering how my mother has gotten along over the past two weeks here in The Gambia, take a peek here

And, for the rest of you...check back later.

Adios!

And, Until Next Time...Don't Stop Believin,

Matty

Actinnnngggg!! (in a Jon Lovitz voice)

Oh, it's back to the office this Monday morning, and myself, M.C. and my mom (god bless her soul) are busy preparing for both our inevitable return to the field in February, as well as the upcoming NSGA National Drama Competition this Saturday evening. (*Right now mom is putting her teacherly printing skills to work preparing flip-charts to be used on NSGA's various training sessions...everyone is very impressed with her penmanship.)

This coming Saturday, 15 Upper Basic (middle/junior high) and Senior Secondary (high) schools from all over the country (east to west) will arrive here in Fajara to compete against one another for the NSGA National Drama crown. As we've been made to be aware over the past few weeks, these schools take these competitions very SERIOUSLY. No Peer Health Education/Drama team dares show up with wrinky-dinky presentation, nor without their game faces on. (I'm sure that your Rex Ryan's of the world would find this event a prime chance to run their mouths at the competition...but I digress and must let my ire over my Patriots loss last week go to rest for the year) These "dramas" will be a showcase of the intervention that myself and my colleagues have had in the various schools pertaining to HIV/AIDS and Life Skills education over the past months.

And so, we are busy preparing questions and scenarios for the Quiz and Impromptu Speech components, that will accompany the Drama piece...Yes, the NSGA goes all out for these things. I have no doubt it will be a late night.

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Just a reminder that my mother (the guest blogger) has taken up my mantle over the past week, and continues to offer her insights on her African Adventure at http://gardencreek.nbed.nb.ca/teacher/mrs-decourcey Check it out, and humor her a bit.

Until Next Time...Don't Stop Believin,

Matty

Freeloading

Yea...I know...no blog posts from Matt this week. Well, I got sick ok! And, my mom is here to boot...so I'm freeloading, er...tour-guiding...and anyways, my mom is doing the blog work for me. To check out her take of her visit to The Smiling Coast check out her teacher page on Garden Creek Elementary School at:
http://gardencreek.nbed.nb.ca/teacher/mrs-decourcey

Enjoy one and all...

And Until Next Time...Don't Stop Believin,

Matty

Discovering Girl Talk

Quiet Day in Office, means headphones on, Girl Talk in the ears All Day (sorry for those confused...but I'm sure many more of you know what I'm talking about), and work getting done.

For those interested, I have new pics up--those from December, minus the camera-stolen-pics taken in Dakar--for viewing pleasures. My picks are found here on flickr, or my facebook page.

Also, big news for me, as my mother leaves from Fredericton today to make the trek across the pond to visit her little boy. Mom arrives Thursday, and I'm deep in contemplation on what and where we shall visit first thing over her first weekend along The Smiling Coast. Stay tuned one and all.

Till Next Time...Don't Stop Believin,


Matty