Graduation

Endings
Are not finale
But beginnings again
As adventure draws to a close
Onward

Preparations where made, students practiced singing and marching, talks where given, a feast was prepared and eaten then dancing went on late into the evening.  

A Little Rain. A Little food. A Little Wood

Stormy
Sometimes it rains
Pouring down from above
Reflections of good things to come
Divine

The Service Center employee people to take care of the grounds, purchase airline tickets, and keep the wards and school going.  They hosts important Church dignitaries.

The senior missionaries get together and whenever they do they EAT. 

And they get together quite often.  At Zone Conference the Senior Missionaries prepare the meals for the younger missionaries and listen in on the meetings.  The AP's do a great job conducting, and presenting the lesson.  

Elder Bogh showed Banririe (Vice Principal) how to do segmented wood turning. 

Shown below are some of his first projects. Now Banririe has to teach some of the students.

Halloween and Christmas Pagent

Christmas

On Halloween

Shepherds came with Angels

very strange mix of Holidays

Culture

Once in a while the tide is extra high. Below are kids playing. They are daring the ocean to try and get them wet. This takes place outside our back door.

 School is winding down. Below is Teacher Appreciation day put on by the students. There was singing and dancing. Of course there was food. There is always food.

The students are going to leave and go home for the 'summer" or "winter" or whatever... so two days before Halloween, the music department dressed up in costumes and presented their Christmas Program. Mary and Joseph were in attendance as well as the wise men, shepherds and angels singing. The manger is the big shell with a red rose in it. Baby Jesus was a stuffed doll or bear wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Water, Water everywhere but not a drop to drink. So we drink in the beauty.

Contrast on Tarawa

Contrasts

Glowing Sunsets

and damaged packages

Masked men and electrical fires

strange place

The person shown below looked like a bandit and stopped us...

but he was only working with the road crew.

 The two packages shown below are examples of what happens to some of the mail that is sent here.

The two sunsets shown below are examples of what happens to some of the skies that are here.

 Below is the main electrical cable that comes into the campus here at Moroni. It was just laying on the ground, crossing the driveway for about a week.  Two wooden boards were placed on each side of the cable so that cars could drive over it. The truck shown below weighed so much that the boards and cable was crushed. Sparks flew like fireworks and smoke and flames entertained the staff and students at the school.  For some reason the power went off.

Around the Lagoon

Lagoon

Water rising

and evenings fading light

A quiet peaceful place to be

tonight

Above: New Missionaries Elder and Sister Sumner (ITEP), Sister Aldredge (The Nurse). Also shown is Dan (The Translator), who is from Church headquarters working on updating the translation of the Standard Works in Kiribati, and President and Sister Weir, Sister Wall, and Sister Bogh.

 Sister Aldridge and Sister Bogh with Mawaruru at a cooking demonstration for the Young Men of Bikenibeu Ward. They made cookies and cake.

Elder Bogh has been goofing around in the shop. He made a sword for the Moroni Warriors and has been helping Banririe (the vice principal) and some of the students learn to make segmented wood turnings.

 Of course we are still having parties and eating. Below is shown Teacher Appreciation Night.  The students brought food, sang, and danced for the teachers.

Field Trip To KIT

Moroni High School Students and Faculty were invited to KIT (Kiribati Institute of Technology), to observe the TVET Programs offered there. About 150 Students were taken on the buses.

The small houses are replicas of actual home designs.  They are resting on food safes which are used like our fridges but without refrigeration. They are used to keep the animals out and general storage.

Carpentry, automotive, electrical, and computer training are a few of the things taught there.  They had some very impressive machines in the shop area.

TVET Open Day

Along with the Cultural Presentations of the various Outer Islands, the TVET Department had displays and demonstrations from each of the classes. 

Student work was also shown and available for sale.

Picnic Tables constructed by the Carpentry Classes were completely sold out.

Singing and Dancing was part of the day.

Competition

Below is part of the Fashion Show presented by the Clothing and Fashion Design Class.

Two nuts drinking coconuts.

TVET Classes preparing for the School Open Day.