First day in Ghana

Dear all,

Yesterday noon I had finally arrived in Ghana. The plane had been 90 minutes delayed, so after meeting my driver we did not waste much time, bought 2 bottles of water and were off to the first project village where Joseph and Sofia from the local Worldreader team were already waiting at the 'senior high school'.

When i arrived, the kids were working on a creative arts project Joseph and Sophia had tasked them with: draw a poster to the topic 'My e-reader is as fragile as...' They were working in groups and had already drawn some parts of the posters. I was surprised by the high degree of precision: every letter or item was drawn with pencil and ruler and then carefully colored.

I had been announced as 'the guy who can fix Kindles' - high expectations but I was greeted enthusiastically. Three classes in Adeiso are working with Kindles, in Senior High School, Junior High School and Primary School. We visited both Senior and Junior High, asking students who of them were experiencing connectivity problems. After an initial challenge in figuring out who had permanent problems and whose were temporary, Sofia and I settled on a Danish/German approach and created a system on the whiteboard and grouped devices into A, B and C (see foto below). We collected the devices from groups B and C to analyze them later.

I was also tasked with my second challenge - do a case study on how using the e-readers at home may influence students learning success. The idea was to visit students at home who have shown a very high vs. low savvyness in handling their e-readers. Let's see what I'll find out.

So there I am, sitting at the breakfast table with Joseph and Sofia - porridge fruit salad and omelette. We're about to go to the second project village today to see the classes there and for me to advance my assignments.

I'm off to school, take care everyone,
Carl