Hi again, from Amy!!
So, we have been in Corozal 5 days and have today returned to Belize City. During our time in Corozal we have met with the Corozal school board, painted two classrooms, including blackboards, visited with the church, met with the Community College personnel (which is highschool-junior college to us United Staters), met with our principal of CCCPS, and visited with most of our scholarship students.
Of course, we have gotten to know each other during this time. We have survived the heat, as well as a heat virus, and seen the Lord bless each day with lots of sun and future dreams for our school.
The classrooms are being worked on the next few weeks. Our school manager, David Diego, has found some men to work on the school. They will be covering the ceiling in one room that has exposed cinder blocks. He said the kids were worried about the blocks falling on them. So they won't notice the blocks with cement covering the blocks. We inquired about leveling the floors in the lower level classrooms. This will be good so that the desks and tables will sit evenly on the floor. Johnetta, Bev and I dream of placing tile on the floors one of these years. We have been told that it would be expensive. But we will continue to dream and pray.
Another dream we have is to teach our older students computer and keyboarding skills for their highschool studies and/or job skills. After talking to our principal, Mr. Chan, we have decided to work on providing the school with small netbooks. They are an inexpensive way to provide computers. Also the netbooks are efficient for portability and safe keeping from theft.
As always, if you or someone you know would like to donate a netbook please contact one of the board members. We were thinking of sending down 5 to 10 netbooks for a computer class. We have teachers qualified to teach, we just have to ask God to provide the means.
As mentioned before, we have a uniquie relationship with the music teacher at the highschool. Jerry and Johnetta spoke with the band director, again. He is thrilled about training some of our students. This opportunity is not open to any other school, just ours. We are excited about providing this to our students. We look forward to sending down flutes, clarinets, horns and more snare drums.
The small congregation in Corozal is poor and always in need. Jerry and Johnetta went to the local market and ordered up some rice and beans to pass out. They decided they would give each family an extra bag of beans and rice to give to someone in need. So, on Sunday morning we gave out the gift bags to all the members 15 years old and up, along with the rice and beans to each family unit. Sunday nite we heard about the giving of their rice and beans to friends.
Okay...it is now time to post some pictures.
Before I sign off.....we welcome our newest board member, Bev Gansner!!!!!