Whew it was a busy day but a lot was accomplished. Spending the day at Nice View I was able to update all the sponsor’s kids photos (those will be going out in email today or tomorrow) along with the students class standing. I’m sure most of the sponsors will be proud of their child.
I also learned Milky Way (Nice View’s grade cow) had fallen sick on Saturday and they really weren’t sure if she would make it. The vet thinks the placenta wasn’t completely delivered when she delivered on the 17th of July but seems he was able to help her out and she is now eating. I’m no vet so I guess it’s really a wait and see game. The calf is doing well, but will need to have mom start producing milk so she can eat or else they will have to buy milk for the calf.
The kids are all excited as tomorrow is the last day of school for this term. Upper primary (5th-8th grade) will return on the 8th of August for tutoring but the rest will have the month of August off and return in September for the last term of the school year.
A meeting was set up next week for the secondary students and their guardians. I’m not excited about this meeting as I may have to tell some of the students Saved By God’s Grace can no longer pay their school fees because of their very low grades. Saved By God’s Grace has set a policy if a student receives a grade of D+ or lower for 2 terms in a row their fees will not be paid. Unfortunately a few of the students received their “warning term” last term and we’ll see how many have pulled their grades up to a C- or better. We will discuss various options with the student, guardian and sponsor but we have to make some hard decisions with the limited resources we have. I’ll keep the sponsors posted as to which students are affected by this policy (which the students are aware of and signed the policy).
The day is ending here in Tala with overcast skies and windy…looks like it should rain but we aren’t expecting rain until around November. It makes for very dry and dusty days that even my curtains smell like dust and I look out the window at what seems like smoke rolling by the window but turns out to be dust!
Had a few students give me letters to either sponsors or pen pals – I love it when they remember to do that without prompting from me!
The Photo Gallery was also updated with C4KK photos, Life photos and Nice View photos…go check them out!