Liam in Africa

This is a blog dedicated to Liam Hanks' trip to The Gambia. Please feel free to leave comments! Be sure to check out the Archives for older posts so you can get the whole story!

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Bakary, Sherifou, Adama and more















Well I'm definitly looking forward to coming home. I'm still enjoying it here, but it's a long time to be away from friends and family.

Last week I had one day of internet access at the computer classes, I set about four people up with email accounts, showed people how to search with google, answered a lot of questions. Generally people thought it was a success. I also had an oppurtunity to look at my own emails, and started to write a post to put on here, but ran out of time.

I only have two more classes to teach, and then the exam! I can hardly believe things are coming to an end; I can remember looking at my calender when I first arrived and thinking that september/october would never come! Yet here it is. I spent some time today installing Microsoft Office on all of the remaining new computers, and saw as well that they came with mice, keyboards and headsets, which I doubt, unfortunately, will ever be used.

Well, really I don't have much to say. Nothing has changed, nothing really exciting has happened. I teach the computer classes through the week, and on the weekends find somewhere to work / play on computers, or just stay at home and read. That's my life. Enjoy the pictures!

5 Comments:

  • At Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:26:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Wow, looks like you even have acquired a bit of a tan...Amazing how time flys, glad that all is well. Quiet adventures are better than big noisy ones most of the time anyway!
    Warm regards, Virginia in a slowly cooling off Louisiana

     
  • At Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:59:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    How did you feel about being there in the IT field? For me, it was the hardest part of being in The Gambia... so many mixed emotions. Realized that the computers would probably never be turned on after I left.

    -Gillian

     
  • At Sunday, October 01, 2006 9:06:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hey Liam,
    I am definitly very excited for you to come home. Reading your blog just isn't the same as having you come upstairs to find the ball that Amy and Cloe were playing with. lol.

    See you soon.
    Lots of love ~Kesh

     
  • At Sunday, October 01, 2006 7:30:00 PM, Blogger Liam Hanks said…

    Oh Kesh! I hope I don't do that again! HAHAH!

    It's nice because of the project I'm working in I know the computers will get used, even once I leave. The student's are also using the skills they're learning in their work, and school, so I can really see the difference it's making!

     
  • At Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:28:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    So I'm in Frenchies tonight and Megan comes up to say hello. After a couple of minutes she turns to her two friends to tell them that I'm her aunt, and they say "Why bother telling us that - you look so much alike there is no need to tell us she is a relative."! (Go figure.)

     

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