Color Day!
At the end of every period (there are four periods in a year), the school holds a week of exams. On the Friday before exam week, they...
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Taylor Conley
Oct 23, 20151 min read
What’s for lunch?
Usually, lunch at the school involves rice or sorghum, beans (either whole or made into sauce), and a fish sauce of some sort. However,...
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Taylor Conley
Oct 20, 20152 min read
Things Are Not Always What They Seem
This may appear to be an ordinary, simple hut in a forgotten corner of Haiti. But I tell you that cosmic clashes of light and darkness...
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Taylor Conley
Oct 16, 20151 min read
It’s Dessalines’ Day!
Happy Dessalines’ Day! Kindergarten 2 salutes you. And Kindergarten 1 shows off their feathers. Everybody got in on the hats and fun!...
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Taylor Conley
Oct 10, 20154 min read
Introducing: The Hospitality Staff!
Before we start the introductions, here’s an interesting side note about names in Haiti. First of all, except for rare cases, everybody...
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Taylor Conley
Oct 10, 20153 min read
No Food, No School: The Importance of the School Food Program
Communicating from one context to another, very different context can be quite a challenge. At times it seems impossible to convey the...
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Taylor Conley
Sep 26, 20152 min read
Other happenings…
As the new work year begins, school news tends to dominate the blog. However, there are many other happenings at Lemuel as well these...
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Taylor Conley
Sep 26, 20152 min read
2015-2016 Class Photos and Teacher Intros!
The Kindergarten Taking pictures of the kindergarten classes is always…well, a fun challenge. For Kindergarten 1, you can pretty much...
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Taylor Conley
Sep 18, 20153 min read
Introducing: The 2015-2016 School Administrative Staff
Emmanuel Junior Almaïs School Director Almaïs first became involved with Lemuel as a youth in 1998 in Port-au-Prince through soccer...
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Taylor Conley
Sep 18, 20151 min read
The Wheels on the Bus…
The bus got new tires! Just look at that tread… And as a result, Anna began its new job this week as the school bus. Some of the...
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Taylor Conley
Sep 11, 20152 min read
First day of school!
School opened on Tuesday, September 8. At 7:30, the teachers began lining all the students up for the first flag-raising of the year. The...
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Taylor Conley
Sep 7, 20151 min read
RAIN!
This morning it rained for over an hour and a half. Praise the Lord!
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Taylor Conley
Sep 4, 20152 min read
Seminars
Things are gearing up for the beginning of the new work year. This week, we held seminars designed to orient, prepare, and motivate our...
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Taylor Conley
Aug 28, 20153 min read
Over the Summer…
Aaaaaaand we’re back! For the months of July and August, we took a brief hiatus. But, that certainly does not mean that life stopped!...
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Taylor Conley
Jun 29, 20152 min read
Out of the darkness, into the light…
“We are in the darkness here in these thorns.” One of the men clearing the land spoke as he hacked at thorns with his hoe. “If they...
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Taylor Conley
Jun 22, 20152 min read
Others are watching…
“I learn so much from Lemuel. Because you are here, I don’t feel alone.” The young man who sat across from us came from Ti Karenaj, the...
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Taylor Conley
Jun 16, 20152 min read
A simple question…
I figured I had missed an opportunity of sharing with the workers today. After leaving the first group, I arrived at the site of the...
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Taylor Conley
Jun 11, 20151 min read
God our Creator…
Walking out of the yard to meet Jinel, I heard a call from Manis’s office. Stepping inside I saw Krischelle, Almais and Manis sitting...
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Taylor Conley
Jun 4, 20151 min read
Seeing GOD in the crisis…
After visiting several families in the area, Manis turned the car around and headed to Celisa’s house. Driving up to the yard Manis said,...
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Taylor Conley
Jun 2, 20151 min read
Seeing NOW what we didn’t then…cont.
Seeing GOD in the crisis… Only God KNOWS what tomorrow will hold! This past April two friends from Wisconsin came to help us with a few...
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