Peningki Hill School - Middle/High School

The number each student is holding corresponds to his/her grade level.

 

This is my current class.  From left to right: Hattie Underhill, Taylor Moore, Caleb Moore, and Isaac Underhill.  At the end of September I will have one more boy - Britton Forney. 

What a great bunch of kids.  Although teaching is always a lot of work, these kids make it enjoyable.  They are all polite and eager to do well. 

Hattie and Isaac's father is a pilot/mechanic.  Caleb and Taylor's dad is one of the teachers this year. Their moms are busy taking care of family business.



You know you are going to have a good year when you tell your class, "Let's take a crazy picture now," and this is what you get. :o)

Now please indulge my musings. If any of you have spent much time talking to me, you know that I don't feel like a true missionary here. I can't speak the language (although I'm trying to learn) and therefore don't have opportunities to engage the people here. But on the other hand, I came to help the missionaries that are here doing just that.

I repeatedly hear from missionaries and organizations that support missionaries that one of the major causes of attrition is concern for their children's education.  Missionaries leave the mission field because they don't have quality schooling options for their children.  And that is where I step in.  I hope that my coming here to teach MK's will alleviate some of the stress parents feel about their child's education.

So I will look for opportunities to interact with nationals but I will be content knowing that I am doing what God has called and equipped me to do - teach MK's.