INSPIRE....THATS THE MESSAGE..... INSPIRE

INSPIRE....THATS THE MESSAGE..... INSPIRE

Its 17/11/2010, my brother is 9yrs and he can't read . Its not entirely his fault, nor mine. Circumstsnaces didnt permit a lot of things.
Now, I had to teach him reading and I realized I knew nothing about reading, I was amiss as at how I came about reading and saying all the words.
So I find a way to learn the sounds..basic phonetics...they termed it; aa. b3, ck3, d3 .......
Thinking about it right now, we have an enormous task as educators, not to only know what it is we are impacting to our students but to also be able to tell them why they are supposed to know it.
Teaching my kid brother the phonetics, I had to open his mind to the fact there was more to what he was learning , that after learning it will work some sort of magic which will enable him read.

KEEPING JOURNALS II

I will want to present a piece from my journal, usually sounds like poetry.... the way I write in my journal, maybe bcos I have been using journals ever since I saw my father used it..that will be around the time I was 11....
In this piece I thought about writing something I felt inside,it was an intuitive feeling to pen down, some sort of an idea I felt was true.
Its titled  Identity


It was only yesterday when i was 7 with less to worry about
I was running my bike to and fro the playing ground 
My mind not burdened with tomorrow , filled with the bliss of the present and yesterday fogged with many laughters of today.
I wonder why I cannot go back to being 7,8,9,10...
Cos right now I feel like I am on a journey 
A journey I started after I lost the pillar in my life 
I have come far with lots of answers yet I still search
Its like everyday there is a new questiion, a question you must find out and then answer

Life's many disillusioned metaphors caused by our many perceptions
Always ends us on a search 
A search to find what we want to become
A search to find fulfillment
A search to find all the good things we believe makes our life the righteous path we wish it to be
I see myself going through these many cycles , looking for answers to the many puzzles that I am even yet to uncover
I realized somehow we get to a  point in our life, when we begin to search
When we begin to search for all the things that  brings meaning to us
We begin to search for our identity
Identity..we begin to search for the one thing or things that brings the pieces of our life together
Many are doing this unconsciously and others are somewhat conscious
So we go on a journey to find ourselves
All who find their identity and work with it, find everything else
Its silly though how it turns out when you dont find you.
Everything around you seems kind of illy and opportunities out of reach.
I cant say how every individual can find himself or herself bcos its a journey every individual must take in his own
But I believe I can give  you a head start.
You know what they say; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a step, but a step in the wrong direction can put you in cycles for ages.
The right step here, on identifying yourself is first  identifying yourself with your source.

KEEPING JOURNALS

Journals are a special way of expressing oneself.
It goes well beyond just penning down words 
Its a way one communicates to himself 
The book and pen are just there for records sake
But the real depth of the journaling thing is unleashing thoughts, expressing how you feel about  something, a situation or an idea
It involves connecting pieces of ideas and sometimes making sense out of it.
It involves saying all you want without control.
Your journal is the part of you that wants to talk and wants to listen.
It doesnt restrict you to the form or way you need pour how you feel......
It has such attention and care n all you have to do is pour.....
Its always saying
Tell it all to me
And I will give it all back to you when you are ready


A reflection of how you felt yesterday can only help you grow, if any lesson is learned.
And it works, is like taping yourself while you reacted to that situation and then later you find out ...you didnt handle things quite well afterall.


Its like reading that book and saying what you thought, but after reading it again you find out there was more to the story than you were able to make out of it.


Tell it all to me
And I will give it all back to you when you are ready
Im jst a reflection yet a deep one.

Ok, its 21:32GMT  on my phone, I dont have a watch ,eventhough I love watches, I will get one of these days because it reminds me a lot of my father. He is always pausing and checking while talking to you , and as a child what I even liked the most was the mark the watch left on your wrist after you had worn for it a long time.
Well I just wanted to mention a few turn  ups about the whole project.
Right now, things are pretty dull, I haven't been able to take the initiatives needed to make things happen.
I did good for a while, going to the nearest school and starting out something with the students.(Liberty School @ Lomnanva).
I went there on several occassions  but other pressing issues came up and I had to sort them out, so I dropped the visits and the time wasnt right to continue for now.
But right now I have plans about designing some posters and starting out something for the students who are graduating in no time.... I think by the end of this month they will be out and it will be great to organize some kind of  talk for these minds, budding minds they are... to prepare their minds to follow the self-education terrain. All I hope for is that we are able to do well , to instill in them that passion to find out things and try to answer  all those questions that pop up as they get in contact with knowledge.
Instill in them that agility to have them notice,doubt and look for reason, and make things look more logical, to have them draw upon their imagination to enable them understand nature as it is.
Nature has a vast imagination, and its magnificence is like no other.... It makes sense right, to organize " budding minds meeting"... have us the opportunity to learn with these young ones.. see from their point of view and let them into ours...me seeing their mind and them seeing my mind, such exchange can only lead to an expansion of  perspective views.

Will be discussing the whole thing with Salifu, so we can see what we can do, the main constraint will be sourcing funds, but if for location, I think the hill will be a perfect place to have the meeting.. great! ... the thought just hit me. Yeah, with the wonderful view , we can cause these people to think and imagine and help us do the same.
Wonderful idea, if not the hill a classroom will do, we will find a venue .
Thats all for now, will do more journaling soon..ahahahhaha..its fun I love what I am doing.
We keep telling ourselves Ghana needs us, and we need to meet the  task, following our passion and helping others do the same.