Tu'ua le 'Aoga (School's Out)

Expect to see some more frequent posts over the next three weeks because I will be having a lot more time on my hands. The first term of school has just finished and I have a three week break. I still have other projects, meetings, and trainings to attend but I definitely will have more time to come in to the office and play on the computer. This Wednesday I will be taking some leave time and am flying to Pago Pago, American Samoa. I'll be staying there until Saturday and will most certainly write a post about my adventures there. So stay tuned.
As for an update on the last month....My school is still without a principal which has been particularly frustrating as this leaves me without a job description and the other teachers and staff have been fairly unmotivated to teach. I'm hoping that the Board will have hired a new principal by the time of the next term. I have a ton of projects that I'd like to start on but I feel it's necessary to keep my ideas inline with the vision any new leadership has for the school. The last thing I want to be is this young Westerner coming in with all these big plans and not have it be in the direction the school would like to move in and I of course, would also like to have someone to pass some skills onto.
This isn't to say that I haven't accomplished anything in the last month. I feel like I had my biggest success two weeks ago when I was able to get one of my students enrolled in a regular high school. She has cerbral palsy and uses a wheelchair but doesn't have an intellectual ability. She came to our school this past year because she was too old to keep attending the school for physical disabilities and no one thought a "normal" school would accept her. Well, with a few phone calls and some help from another volunteer at his high school we were able to get her enrolled. With a few more phone calls I was able to find her a sponsor for the school fees and transportation costs. The high school was so thrilled to have her that they didn't even want her to wait until the start of the next term. They let her attend the last two weeks of this first term for free. She is now in my fellow peace corps volunteer's computer class at the school. He gives me frequent reports on how she's doing. Apparently, she's one the brightest in his class. (I take a certain pride in that as I worked with her on the computer every morning before school started since she came to school early) It's been a great experience for the other students at the high school as well since many of them have had no interaction with anyone who uses a wheelchair. She's become very popular and everyone wants to push her around. (Shortly I'll be writing a post on disabilities and Samoan Culture to illustrate the need for education here on Special Needs.)
She's happy at her new school and I couldn't be happier for her. My other project the last month has been an attempt to acquire a wheelchair for my 21 year old student (who had never been the ocean before) for home use. (Currently he spends his days lying on the cement floor in his open Samoan fale.) If all goes as planned he should have one soon. Again stayed tuned. So yes, I'm on break from school and will be enjoying my time hanging out on this tropical paradise but hopefully, still accomplish a thing or two other than "tafou" (hang out)