new beginnings at the Liberty Aademy

These piles of mud were our attempt to keep the flood waters out of our school each time it rains. If it only rains a little bit, they do the trick. But when we get one of those heavy downpours, the water comes in at so many different places that this mud does very little to keep our rooms dry. The pile by the door also forced us to change our main entrance to the OTHER side of the sanctuary, where we now have a make-shift sidewalk of broken bits of concrete block. At least the students can get in without too much labou (mud) on their shoes. And we've made a 'no shoes' policy in the classrooms now, so we get to learn and teach barefoot (or sock-footed)!


The first of two PA teams to come help us rebuild this fall arrived on October 2nd. Not a day to early. We put them to work repairing the roof of our old school, so that three of the rooms can still be used (2 for classrooms, one for storage). They also helped mount large ceiling fans in the sanctuary to help temper the sauna-like climate in there. It was such a blessing to have that for the first few weeks of school - even though our students' papers are flying all over the place now! One of the first English phrases I had to teach my students was "hand on paper" - so that they didn't lose their work every time I handed it out to them =) We are praying for the details of our AC installation to get worked out asap so that the classrooms aren't so distracting for the rest of the year...


Lookin' good, Miss Lindsay! This 3rd grade classroom is ready to go =)


I did what I could to add a bit of life to the mud and water-stained walls of my classroom.


Miss B (Shakinah) and her two fifth grade boys, ready for day 1 of school!