A Teacher

 I come back to gulu for several reasons, one i feel like I can make some steps to help my friends and the students of Gulu.  More and more the true reason I think I come back to Gulu is the friendships i've made. And I guess the most prominent of those friendships havec been with  four young men who many years ago, i met at the same age as my current students. Amos, Ronald, Julius, and Geoffrey.

This post it's about Amos.  Since i'm in the old blog and have not figured out quite how to get to the new blog. You can probably read more stories about him.  He still struggles, and when money is tight. And he needs something in town. He walks for two and a half hours to get there.  He just smiled when he told me this story.  No complaints, just the way it is.

That is not the main story here. The main story is a young man who is in love with teaching and loves his students.  At the end of the school year, I got a little complacent, and did not wear a tie every day.  I don't think that will happen this year because a young man named Amos clearly demonstrated what professionalism is.

I fought hard this year to get three eighth grade classrooms.  So I could teach seventeen students instead of twenty three.  This morning Amos i taught a hundred and thirty fourth graders we were jumping out of their seats to get him to review their work or to answer a question.  

Amos  has only been at the school since august  and he has already been promoted to director of studies.   I have the address of his primary school Akonyibedo and I suspect we will find ways to send this school things that will help these students learn.  We had a wonderful conversation with Head Teacher at Akonyibendo, Lucy a wonderful educator and a very amicable host.

I always like to tell my students. I am a lifelong learner, and today I was taught by a wonderful teacher, my friend, Orach Amos.