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The water is not flowing

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There is a water shortage in Winneba.

People fetch water in buckets that they carry on their heads and in their hands.

They go long distances to get water.

The water tanks on campus run dry. The administration fills them with tanker trucks.

The rumors are running rampant. Nobody knows what is happening. There is no information on the Internet. The radio station cannot get anyone from the Ghana Water Company to talk about what is really happening,

“The water is being rationed, only flowing for a short time at night — maybe.”

“The reservoir is dry.”

“A python died in the water supply.”

“A machine has broken.”

What we know is that the water is not flowing.

Imagine how stressful life would be if you didn’t have running water.

We are truly blessed.

My teaching load for spring semester at the UEW

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It is hard to believe that we have been back in Winneba for 5 weeks. I have not posted in awhile. I have been busy, seeing how my teaching schedule “will get sorted,” as the HOD says, and prepping for classes.IMG_0788

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got some teaching assignments around 11 January 2016 and I started teaching on 18 January 2016. I am not completely clear about what my load is. Here is what next week will look like:

Mondays

  1. 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 300-level Pre-Internship Seminar (don’t know how many students, because I have not actually attended this yet; just found out I was expected to be present last Tuesday; I hope I am not teacher of record,…..)
  2. 1:30-4:30 p.m. 100-level Fundamentals of Sign Language (25-ish students)

Tuesdays

  1. 7:30-10:30 a.m. 500-level Seminar (10 graduate students)
  2. 1:30-4:30 p.m. 400-level Post-Internship Seminar (30-ish students; I missed the first week; the second week, I got a call at 1:36 p.m., 6 minutes after the start of class, wondering if I was planning to attend; I hopped up from whatever I was doing on the Internet and walked over to campus to meet the class totally unprepared; I am not teacher of record, I don’t think…..)

Wednesdays

  1. 7:30-10:30 a.m. 100-level Fundamentals of Sign Language (75-ish students)

Thursdays

  1. 7:30-10:30 a.m. 400-level Sign Language class (25-ish students)
  2. 10:30-1:30 p.m. 400-level Seminar (same 25-ish students from the morning)

I have one additional 500-level class, Advanced Sign Language. I have only one student, so we have not really established a regular meeting time. This student is acting as a teaching assistant in the undergraduate Sign Language classes.

I seem to be teacher of record for 6 classes or 18 credits. I am one of three faculty responsible for two additional classes or 6 additional credits. The loads here are huge! I was talking with another member of the department who said that he is responsible for 31 credits! Makes me ever so grateful for WOUFT, my faculty union!