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Reflections

By Alan on January 22, 2010

It’s hard to believe that five months ago I was living in Tala, working as a VSO volunteer. Life was good then, simple; I was living in a rural area of Kenya, hakuna matata (no problems). I didn’t particularly enjoy teaching, but I loved my colleagues and the pole pole (slow) life was easy to [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Holy Rosary, ILRI, Kenya, Kiswahili, Linux, Nairobi, Swahili, Tala, Teaching, technology, Theileria parva, Tparva, Uthiru, VSO, work | 2 Responses

Giving Back

By Alan on July 22, 2009

For the past year and a half I’ve been working as a teacher at Holy Rosary College in Tala, Kenya. It has been a great experience but it was a bit nerve racking at first because I wasn’t prepared to be teaching classes. Over my time as a volunteer at the college I’ve taught five [...]

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Posted in Kenya, Teaching | Tagged Copyleft, Creative Commons, Holy Rosary, Kenya, Notes, Tala, Teaching, technology | 4 Responses

Back in Tala

By Alan on January 19, 2009

I’ve been back in Tala for a little over a week now. School was supposed to open on January 5th, but I was still in Ethiopia. I don’t know why it took me so long to notice, but last semester I noticed that neither the students nor the teachers report on time for school. Last [...]

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Posted in Kenya, Teaching | Tagged Holy Rosary, Kenya, Tala, Teaching | 1 Response

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