@ PRESEC-ADAESO (Senior high school).
       Saturday, 14th May,2011
We started well, the weather was favorable and certainty about our predetermined program kept us moving. As scheduled, Samuel and I had to talk about passion in the art of reading.
We did just that, trying to instigate a reason for reading as a means of exploring more about things we are passionate about. We started by talking about passion and its traits so the students get to understand what their passions are, and how the intense innate desire compels and leads us into an unpredictable journey of exploration. We had some help from the dictionary on the kindles.
It was all cool until I had to talk about exploration as a trait of passion. I had taken my own experience as an example, talking about my pursuit towards the understanding of the topic of randomness versus determinism, how it later engulfed and made me explore other topics such as causality, certainty and uncertainty. Just then I was explaining randomness, that things just happened without the cause of other events and indeed it manifested.
It started raining heavily and we had not expected that at all.
So uncertainty crept in and few of us felt the program was going to be wrecked. We decided to be deterministic by following suit our programs as the weather changed. Samuel and I had to stop
because our voices couldn't pierce through the crackling noises of the iron roofing sheet. So we watched the volunteers from Ashesi take over.
 We became certain once more when the students engaged themselves in wonderful academic games. The games included spelling, and acting words or statements to partners.
So they picked some words from some stories on the kindles to test the spelling ability of the kids. Then we went on to play the "pick and act game" as it still rained heavily. This time I think I was inspired.
I saw the children  trying to bring words to life, doing all they could to tell their team mates a word or a statement without speech but mere action.
Among them was a tall boy hopping; his two arms fixed to his chest just like the tyrannosaurus. On the third hop I could hear the sound of his long feet pounding the floor and watching his hanged arms... I realised he was a man-kangaroo. I laughed because he had no pouch, no tail and no pointed face. Do actions speak louder than words?
I think actions themselves are words.
   The rain stopped, and so did the crackling noises of the roof. Samuel and I wrapped things up and took some questions from the students.
Joseph helped answer some questions as well about pursuing passions.
We all had fun learning and I think the worldreader is by far on the right path, not only reading but inspiring these kids to build the best future for themselves.
Being able to continue our program with the circumstances that befell, I think there is always a source of happiness around us, and all we have to do is to observe and discover what to learn at particular moments.

@ Adaeso

We had an opportunity to work with the world reader organization . The first  experience which we were waiting patiently for came on the 7/5/11
We  were to visit Adaeso Presbyterian school and read  with the children.
Worldreader is doing a wonderful job giving these children this incredible experience with the kindle.
Worldreader's efforts goes way beyond the threshold of getting books to the kids but also to the parents of the kids with the text to speech feature of the kindle.

I had time with some of the kids and just as I had believed, the books these kids are reading is making a wonderful impact in their lives.
One boy's favorite book was titled the champion runner. I asked him why that title is his favorite , and to my surprise he spoke about the resilience, humility and determination of a young boy who won the race competition of  the story.
He was inspired so much by the character in the story and told me, he was adopting the traits of the character in pursuing his dreams of becoming a pilot.
Wow.... I asked why did he choose to become a pilot and not any other profession. He said "its because that's the only way someone can get abroad " , so I asked whether he wanted to become a pilot just so, he could travel and see places... He said, no I want to become a pilot because I get to help the people traveling abroad and myself, as I make money and get to know places.
I was impressed because I felt the boy I had learned a great lesson which he didn't even know , that one has to give in order to receive.
And this my friends is the power of picking up a book, you learn something anyhow either consciously and unconsciously.
For me the vocabulary, expression and all , doesn't have more meaning than the inspiration these kids are going to pick up from every book they read.

Pick up a passion and then pick up a book
Reading speaks the message readily

WHERE TO READ

                     WHERE TO READ.

Words are hard to draw  out, as I keep struggling with my flow.Trying to write right, to impress, draw attention and at the same time drive my message home.
There is an issue at hand that I believe if not looked at might cause the retrogression of this country rather than its progress.

THE PROBLEM I SEE.

My days in school were full of unfulfilled fantasies.
I had always wondered when we were going to study one of my favorite subjects; electricity in Integrated science..
When it was time to learn all about it, I was disappointed , frankly speaking because I had no idea what the teacher had just taught.
My idea of leaning was to lead me on a path of exploration to help me to find out the wonders and tales of the discovery of a subject.
I didn't have lessons from one teacher , soon my Maths teacher came around, I liked Maths, the fact that I had the opportunity to find answers by manipulating numbers and operations..hmmm...but numbers didn't seem fun in the end...cos I just didn't know how to apply  a topic like functions to my everyday life.
Social studies wasn't bad at least, it had strings of tales and stories connected to it and I loved listening to how Dr.Kwame  Nkrumah and his fellas achieved their dream.
I have always wondered if Dr.Nkrumah hadn't written any books that would be worth discussing in class.

GETTING THE BOOKS..

Self education is done best if one gets to fetch all books he needs for free. We therefore see it necessary directing you to the best sources you can get a personal library for free.
Pick a passion and pick a book from the various websites listed. Hope you enjoy reading...
free books online:
www.freebookspot.com
ebookee.com
www.bartleby.com
www.gutenberg.org
www.readprint.com
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
www.dailylit.com
www.scribd.com
www.manybooks.net
books.google.com
en.wikisource.org
ww.sacred-texts.com
www.ccel.org

free audio books:
freebookspot.cc/Category-Audio Bookslibrivox.org
verkaro.org
www.loudlit.org
www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project

READING AND JOURNALING

I sometimes wonder how come I have so much enthusiasm for reading these days.
Reading didn't seem like something really exciting at first
Especially anytime I picked up a book and saw countless pages of text without pictures.
I immediately felt bored, nothing instigated the will to start reading the first page and then
maybe continue to the next.
I can't remember exactly how I ended up in this stage of my life where, every now and then I
want to pick up a book about this or that and then start reading all about it.
It seems to me, I always have to develop a reason to pick up a book, and that reason might be the
fact that I want to get to know about something I like.
Or maybe just to have fun, imagining stuffs and as excited I am about movies, its cool sometimes
to picture a whole movie in your head while just reading words.
It is exciting to see words come alive the way they do, when you pick up a piece of story or novel.

The other day Faith, Salifu and I were taking a walk.
We were actually walking Salifu to the bus station to board a bus home...
This was after he had been to Faith's place to discuss genes and color of the skin with her.
Two biology students, trying to clear some doubts, well Salifu was quite certain of what he knew and Faith needed to settle some doubts she had about her complexion....she is fair and both parents are black
Well while we were walking Salifu to the station , he asked a question which was for me an interesting one.
He said " what do you guys think about this, Your passion can be your talent , but your talent cannot necessarily be your passion , right?"
Well Faith agreed, but I didnt , because I had my believes.
I always said there is nothing like talent , what I have to come to believe is someone is said to be talented at something because he developed an intense enthusiasm for it way before others did.
Well Faith disagreed, and gave me the talk about innate abilities, people born singers ,people born with the flair for dancing and many other things.
Well she was right, and I told her i agreed.......but I didnt totally agree.
Ok, so she is right but the case we all have this innate ability that can make us anything we want.
An innate ability that can cause to birth any kind of talent.
And this innate ability is in everyone.
This innate ability is desire.
You only need the right inspiration, and if you are able to aspire to perspire enough, you will become what you dreamed of being.
We see it everyday, skill always beats talent.
Yeah, learn that, no one is talented enough to beat skill.
Because skill never stops learning.....thats the core of it all...you end being fueled with passion
And thats what brings in all the results.