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Od: spinka.marek
Datum: 11. 8. 2013
Předmět: RE: JHP

Hi Roger,

Thank you for the very encouraging news. It is especially good to hear that the general spirit is good and that there is a dynamics – that experience is being gained and the classes are going even better this year. Wonderful that there will be a computer repair class next year! Thank you for working so hard, systematically and creatively for JHP Skola, both as the CSP secretary and personally as a teacher! We are pleased that the projector is proving useful.

We really appreciate that many events and actions that you and others initiate engage the students actively, both through helping in the school, getting a small income for their working and also broadening their horizons such as through your lecturing and through the field trips. Wonderful!

For all of that, it is obviously needed that things are being accomplished in time when they are needed, so we appreciate the improvement of the rooms at the rear house. I will talk with Michael and Vladimira about the project.

Best regards and thank you so much,
Marek

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From: rgarms tds.net
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 6:13 AM
To: spinka.marek
Cc: Stephen Strange; Tom Watson; grayw tds.net; Kak; Nikki Bown; ktgarden@chorus.net; Sathin Ouk; Vladimíra Šilhánková
Subject: JHP

Hi Marek,

I am in Seoul, just back from two weeks visiting JHP Skola, where I taught a 10 lesson class. The machine has indeed been prepared and I was able to use it to illustrate my lectures. Many times I thought of what a useful gift this was – hard to explain the Big Bang, origins of the solar system and life on earth without illustrations, so thanks very much!

I was quite happy with the way things are going at JHP. I will send you a copy of my report to the board when I get back home and do it. Briefly, there are fish in the pond and chickens in the new chicken house, with plenty of papaya, bitter gourd, water grass, long beans and eggplant being eaten almost every day. The attitude is good, for students and teachers, and the class is a bit more skilled and ahead of last year s class at this point. We sent the students all off on a field trip while I was there, which went very well, as did the class I taught.

We have begun painting the school in and out and the painting crew is doing pretty well on their test project, which is the second downstairs room in the house where you and Dana stayed. It is being prepared for a computer repair class (Sokna finishes his class in this in January). We are putting in a floor upstairs so dirt does not trickle down onto the computers being repaired, and now painting (we pay students to do this so they get some income). When the painting is done we will install workbenches and lights.

I have not heard from Michael or Vladamira on the grant, so decided to go ahead and get the classroom ready even though this improvement might be covered in the grant. It is important to not lose momentum on projects like this, passively waiting funding rather than getting after it ourselves. I wanted to encourage Sokna and get the kids working. I hope this is OK with you, Marek.

Regards,
Roger