Girls Birthdays

Tiarna had her 10th birthday on June 22. Jenaya's 8th birthday was on July 30.

Mazz bought a cake for each. She just got the biggest cake on the list to take in to Tiarna's class (not expecting it to be too big) and it took three classes to get rid of most of it.

Jenaya's cake was smaller with experience and only needed one class to finish it off.

In between the two birthdays was Emily Schneider's 4th birthday.

TISOL Grade 4 Visit to Situm Community School

Last week Tiarna and the two Grade 4 classes at TISOL visited Situm Community School for an excursion. (ADRA PNG has had a long association with the Situm Community) Situm is located about 15 minutes drive East along the coast from Lae.

The classes have been studying changes in housing in class and had a chance to compare traditional housing to modern PNG housing as well as make connections with Grade 4 at another school.

Tiarna and Hannah

Some of the river crossings

Arriving at Situm Community School, with Tiarna's Teacher Mrs Gregory (in hat), Situm teacher (middle), Andrew Read (TISOL Principal) and Andrew Vanderheide (School Board chair and father)

Inside the classroom.

Sharing ideas and information between students of the two schools.Some TISOL students donated books to the Situm school library.

Many schools have non-permanent buildings to cover the large increases in enrolments which the governments cannot keep up with. This is one of these classrooms at Situm.
Saying goodbye to everyone. The fences surround all buildings here in PNG to slow down vandalism and theft. The students and teachers are on the inside of the school fence.
The class then visited another community where they learned about some farming and more about housing.

TISOL Family Fun Day

The International School Of Lae (TISOL) is where the girls go to school and on Sunday May 17, the Parents & Friends ran a Family Fun Day. It was full of traditional games for the kids such as sack races, three legged race (Tiarna and I crashed rather heavily), paper aeroplane competition, tug of war, donut eating competition, balloon relays, and egg and spoon races (one girl didn't quite understand how it was supposed to run and carried the egg in one hand and the spoon in the other and just sprinted!)

Marilyn was the 'first aid lady' so we decided to enter in the 'best dressed family competition'.

(Jenaya had just eaten a Chocolate eclair lollie and was trying to smile as well!)