Nipo Nyumbani!

I'm home.

And glad to be here.

My days away were rejuvenating, but there's much to do here and I'm glad to be back to it.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the UNESCO conference was not everything that I'd hoped. I felt very much on track with UNESCO regarding St. Peter Claver in at least one regard: philosophy. One of the foci of the conference was the importance of introducing students to philosophy even at the high school level (and earlier!). In fact, our students will have a course devoted to moral reasoning taught by one of our volunteers, Laura. It won't be a history of philosophy, but it will be an opportunity for them to engage in "doing" philosophy.

I arrived home yesterday afternoon after a 7 hour bus ride from Dar (and a days' long journey the day before from Paris). I had the 6:30 a.m. Mass this morning and then headed right out to the site. I was pleased to see great progress.

We'll have a second entrance test on Saturday. I'm a bit concerned with the boy:girl ratio, however. We have a few seats left, and I'd like those to go to girls (they make up less than 1/2 of the students already accepted).

More news as the days unfold. This afternoon, I'm setting up the schedule and beginning to prepare documents for the teacher's orientation that begins next Monday.