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Name: Leon

Age: 95 ((human years))  105 ((sheno years))

Birthday: wont tell 

Gender: Male

Sexual: Asexual 

Height: 14 feet 

Job: Leader and protector 

Parent: Unknown  

Personality: Calm, timid, relax, 

Species: Ghast (20%)   Slime(40%)  Sheno (40%)

Like: babies, berry, meat, fishing, napping, and swimming 

The 3rd Goal

The Peace Corps Mission  To promote world peace and friendship by fulfilling three goals: 1. To help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained Volunteers. 2. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. 3. To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.

Before I received my invitation to serve in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, I honestly knew close to nothing about where I would be spending the next 2 years of life. I had an idea of where it was on a map, but I had to Google which language was spoken and just how many miles I’d have to travel to get there. So, in my opinion, I think the 3rd Goal of the Peace Corps Mission is pivotal to a greater world community. When there is more understanding, there are more doors open to peace.

Injera Firfir

Injera firfir is injera soaked and mixed in oil, berbere (the Ethiopian essential spice), and onions that is served with fresh injera. It is a food I gagged at the thought of for my first 18 months in country. I used to think, injera with injera? Really? WHY is that a thing?? I had tried it twice during Pre-Service Training and couldn’t eat more than a couple of bites because I was choking on the spice, as well as the soggy texture. 

Bringing JEOPARDY to Sheno!!

Exam time in Ethiopia, just like anywhere else in the world, is hectic and stressful. Due to the fact that exams make up a huge percentage of a student's final grades, the students know that it is imperative to do well in order to pass their classes and stay in school. During my time here, it has been difficult for me to watch my students stress themselves into sickness over their exams and feel the need to continue the strong 'cheating culture' that is prevalent in the Ethiopian school system. So this school year, I decided that I would find a way to make my students feel confident and prepared for their English Exams in attempt to avoid the crutch of cheating. This year, English Department at Sheno Secondary School had entrusted me with composing the school-wide English Exams, so I was lucky to know how exactly to prepare my students. After much consideration of different avenues I could take, I decided on "Review Jeopardy."

Over the course of two days in the weeks prior to Mid-Exams and Final Exams, my class played "Review Jeopardy!" In preparation for these two exciting days in class, I composed a variety of multiple choice questions from different categories that we had covered over the course of the semester and were likely to show up on the exam. I then assigned each of the five categories a color and wrote their paired questions on that color of paper. For example, vocabulary was assigned blue, words of obligation were green, parts of an informal letter were yellow, uncountable/countable nouns were orange, etc. On the first day of jeopardy, my students were mystified by the rows of different colored paper that I spent several minutes taping to the board. Since Ethiopians absolutely love competition, I split my classes into three teams, which they were able to name themselves. When it was their team's turn, they would choose a category and read the question. Instead of having one spokesperson for a team of +/- 30 students, I made it so that every student had to vote on which answer they thought was correct by raising their hands. The answer that had the most hand raises was chosen for their final answer. If the answer was correct, their team earned a point. If it was incorrect, however, the question was passed on to the next team who could then answer the question for a point. Once a question was answered correctly, I would pause and go over the question so that the students could better understand why it was correct. There was not enough time to finish all of the questions the first day, and so we could continue the following day, which the students were thrilled that the game could continue. That night, I made sure to add questions to categories as well as add questions that I noticed my students were having trouble with. On the second day of jeopardy, my students sped through the questions with a growing confidence and once all the questions were answered, I awarded the team with the most points a round of high fives. When I asked them at the end of class if they felt ready for their exam on Monday, they all yelled YES! and threw a "thumbs up" in the air for me to see.

From GOLBA, with LOVE.