I can say that my world map mural project at the high school is complete. Once I had all the supplies together, I went out and masked off an area of wall and started painting by myself. Within the hour a group of grade 9 guys, who apparently were doing nothing in class, came out and started picking up brushes. We had the whole 2-4 meter wide world map space and its sister 1.5 meter squared South Africa space primed in under 3 hours. The next day we covered both with light blue paint in even less time. That night 2 students, my friend Thokozani, Scott and I used the schools digital projector to trace the map onto the wall. Next morning we painted in the countries with the help of Jeff and Kristy. I traced the countries on the following monday. Basically the whole thing took less than 5 days of work. Speedy.
In other news, I have been waiting since the 25 new computers arrived in February to start computer instruction. 13 of those computers were missing the correct power cords and I refused to teach in a half completed lab when the school was easily capable of buying the needed cables. Again this week I asked the guy in charge of the lab how we could move this process along. He told me that the computer teacher was given the task of getting a quote and that I could help him get some quotes. Called the big computer store in Nelspruit. 1150 Rand for 13 cables. I tell the principal... 'Ok that's fine. When can you go buy them?' Didn't matter how much it would cost. The school would cover it. So I am left wondering what the heck took so long when the purchase did not even need approval.
Still, we will have 25 fully functional computers this time next week. Hells yea.
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