Weekly update 01Sep

Greetings All,

 

It is a pleasure to be continuing on with these weekly updates. We have been blessed with the opportunity to serve again here in Cameroon and things are going well.

 

There have been a lot of changes here over the summer. The School Director and his wife have retired and are working in the States raising money to finish the building of the new RFIS campus. Our Assistant Director was promoted to Director and is doing well. She is very involved in daily activities and seems to like her new job. She taught Bible and 2 PE classes last year but this year she has only 1 PE and no Bible. It seems that we rarely have a shortage of Bible teachers so that was covered easily. I ended up taking on 2 PE classes and her position as Athletic Director. I do have an assistant who does most of the daily stuff like scheduling games and getting the fields ready for soccer games. The girls soccer team played the "old gals" on Wed and it went well. We have a few new young women teachers who came out to play in the mud and they scored 3 goals against our goalie who is really good but the girls scored 10 against the band teacher. No injuries reported so far.

 

Our Academic Director is back in England on Furlough which leaves a committee of sorts doing various parts of her job. We are doing well but we sure miss her. We got in a student teacher from Chicago area who will be with us until November. He is teaching in Betsy's US history class and will come over to my World Geo in October. He is a really nice guy and has been helping me get the bball team ready. He has coached a little before and the boys really like him. Our first game is against the "old guys" on Wed. He will play with my assistant coach who is on the Yaounde city traveling team and Marc the JR boys coach who is 6'5" and fast. There are a handful of other guys coming down and I might play a little. It will be tough but we hung with them last year.

 

My Geo 10 class is studying the infrastructure of cities. I am having them compete to design a city from scratch including most of the basics like a city hall and fire stations etc. They seem to be liking it and I think they will turn out well. World Geo is starting climate and weather. It's real nice to just step outside and see all the different kinds of clouds and how they develop.

 

That's about it from here. Our nagging colds seem to be disappearing slowly so we have been feeling a lot better. We hope to have a newsletter ready in the next few weeks.

 

Take care and God Bless.

 

Brian & Betsy