Iºm working a lot...

Hey all,

Those of you who have known me in college and elsewhere can recognize "Busy Greg" as Jamie Shelton called it. This is my relatively high stress and no nonsense productive state where Iºm hell bent on getting things done. Iºve been spending a lot of time as busy greg recently.
First we needed to finalize the scholarship project and tie up all loose ends before giving it to Peace Corps to print for distribution nationwide at the Regionals conferences. My friends Dan and Natalie translated it, and now there are plans to post the scholarship / university education guide online in a Wiki format so that other PCVs can correct and update it. I presented at the southern regionals and it was very well received, i love the feeling of being an authority on something.
Apart from that Iºve been busily organizing to start a life-skills building through ultimate frisbee project. I just got back from South Africa where I picked up 100 frisbees that were donated by an excellent organization called loveLife. They have already been doing this work and they are going to be behind us on this. Weºre going to ask PEPFAR for the money to make a hat tournament for the kids, along with interscholastic games. Once Iºve refined the curriculum Iºll post some excerpts to give you an idea of how exactly life-skills fits in.
My job satisfaction has been wonderful thanks to the change to Informatica teacher. Iºm giving IT lessons now and busy looking after the computers and solving all the daily maintenance issues that arise. My journalism group already got its first newspaper ready and should have printed it by now without my help. The laminated glass display cases are mounted in the markets so the students have a place to mount their writings. I just recently took one of my students to the natural gas refinery station run by the company that bought our computers and soon i will take other students to watch their own democratic process as the district level government decides who will receive government funded micro-loans. Tellingly, there seems to be no such notion of "conflict of interest" but I think weºll get there eventually.

Greg