9th grade class

this is a photo of the ninth grade class i taught the first week i was in liberia. they are from the isaac a. david school in paynesville. it was a joy to work with them. not surprisingly, they were just like my students at monte vista. here a girl is putting a math problem on the board. we were working on preparing for the national exam they had this past week.
by liberian standards this classroom is well-equiped. despite having only a bare cement floor, aged wooden desks, and limited school supplies, it does have lighting (note the glow from the bare bulb in the upper right hand corner; electricity from a generator), and a roof. i saw a school today that needed to change locations during the rainy season because it did not have a roof.