Trip to the embassy

On Friday I accompanied the leadership club to the US embassy for a video program with students at UGA and a Georgia high school.  It was a very neat idea and worked well as soon as we got the technology working on both sides… The students from Ricks and the US gave each other ideas on civic engagement and shared what they are currently doing in their schools.  A new US embassy was built last year in Monrovia.  It is by far the most extravagant building in the entire city, and cost 164 million dollars to build.  It just looks so strange to have such a fancy building right in the middle of deep poverty.  It was kind of cute watching the kids react to air conditioning.  They were freezing by the time we left the building and could not wait to get back outside. They could not understand why people would enjoy being so cold. There are no pictures from this trip because the embassy has the highest security of any building I have ever visited. It was a little ridiculous, and no pictures were allowed, not even outside the gate. 

Molding young minds

My 6th graders having a boys vs. girls race to see who could remember the most irregular verbs and their past tense.  Girls won by one and it was an intense battle to say the least.