Friday, May 6, 2011

Willem: second blogpost

This morning all the students came to school to be collected by their advisors and then to set off to their 
LTI´s. Although some of them remained in school because of different reasons. Nate´s kids were all 
out to their LTI´s...

I first had a talk with the special education teacher. She was interested in what I do
in the Netherlands and wanted to help me completing my learning plan by setting up a time to see 
students with learning difficulties and psychological disorders.

I should ask Sherri the names of all the staff members in the justice building in order to make it easier for me to address my questions to the right person.

We first went to a garage but our student wasn´t there but was still in bed. Nate rang him up and the student said he would go to school. We then set off for a goat farm which was fun. There we saw a lot of goats, chickens, dogs and pigs. One goat was about to deliver kids but we had to go. We heard that 4 kids were born after we had gone. The student does well at this LTI and has a great mentor. She´s learned to milk the goats, to help delivering kids, knows a bit what reasons there are to do organic farming and helps the veterinarian.

Meanwhile Nate did a great job answering a lot of questions which gave me a better insight in what´s going on during the year(s).

After lunch we went to an Italian restaurant where a student showed us around in the kitchen and the cellar. She´s been given a lot of trust during the year and has progressed in taking on more responsibility 
and doing more tasks.

Nate drove us to a djembe/drumming session of a Ghanese tutor, teaching two students of the Met. That was real fun. Besides performing and listening to the music, the tutor told us a little bit about the history of this typical music and how important that is to preserve.

I´ve seen a lot of new places and faces and found it very interesting to see what sort of things are being organized here.

Willem van Haaften
CSG Prins Maurits, Middelharnis

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