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February Teacher of the Month
Presume Meranoud
Presume teaches 3rd Grade. He has been a teacher for 10 years at the Calhoun-Spady School and enjoys everything about teaching.
He likes the direction of the organization of the Calhoun-Spady School. He is most proud to be Haitian because of the flag and the colors.
If he could change one thing about Haiti, it would be “the way we do politics and the poor condition of the people.”
His favorite Bible verses are John 8:1 and John 3:16.
He likes the direction of the organization of the Calhoun-Spady School. He is most proud to be Haitian because of the flag and the colors.
If he could change one thing about Haiti, it would be “the way we do politics and the poor condition of the people.”
His favorite Bible verses are John 8:1 and John 3:16.
Excerpt from Ronnie & Rachel's Blog
Thank you for your affective prayers for Ivy. She is steadily improving with the care of Dr. Tom Bledsoe in Georgia. She will be traveling to Ranquitte on Feb. 8 with Brenda Cooper for a short visit and will be returning with Dr. Ray Jackson in March.
Ivy Salomon Health Improving
This morning we woke up to the smell of pancakes. The team that is here right now, a team of 7 or 8 men, brought a ton of pancake mix. After breakfast Cardon a beautiful and sweet tempered girl that is suspect is about 15 or 16 tapped on my shoulder and said something in creole I didn’t understand. Eventually I deciphered that she is planning to do laundry later. I had asked her to teach me and I suppose this was her offering an opportunity to learn. I went to my room to gather our dirty clothes and took the bag out back where I had been instructed to sit dirty laundry by the team leaders on past trips. She had already sat out two huge shiny aluminum bowls on the concrete near the outdoor shower. She went into the shower and filled a large bucket with water from the reservoir on the roof of the building. The shower is enclosed by a cinderblock wall with a drainage ravine jutting out in the ground to usher the water away from the house. Once I walked by while a couple of the little girls were showering. There were almost as many giggles coming from the shower as bubbles flowing down the ravine. She used the water from the shower to fill one of the silver bowls then separated the clothes into two piles: lights and darks. So far, I am with her. She piled the lights in the bowl of water. Ronnie and I studied as she broke the foot long piece of almond colored soap into four smaller pieces. She picked up a white tee shirt and quickly brushed the soap back and forth on the fabric several times then. Her hands and fingers are both graceful and forceful with the fabric. She grabbed fists full of the garment and brushed them back and forth together. In a matter of seconds she had worked her way across the entire shirt scrubbing it clean. She wadded the shirt into an orderly handful with ease and wrung the soapy water out with one quick twist. Ronnie and I grabbed shirts and attempted to mimic her. I kind of got the hang of it by the time we had finished the pan but I could not master her grace and speed. We scrubbed the garments an additional time in Fab. I’m not sure why they needed a second washing but we followed her instructions per gesturing. The whites then went into a pan of bleach water. Then Cardon left us sitting in our little wooden chairs and went in to get something. We wondered if we should follow her but we know the word “vini” ...........
