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Larry Olney introduced our Guest Speaker.Today's speaker was Melissa Olney Larry's favourite Granddaughter. Melissa spent 5 years after University trying to get a full time teaching job in Ontario. This was not to be so she travelled to Kenya, Thailand and England teaching. Melissa travelled to the Dominican Republic on an Aid trip with her Grandfather Larry and Grandmother Anita, there she taught a small class and was bitten with the teaching bug. In the last year she travelled to Kenya, Thailand and England to teach. Melissa gave an excellent synopsis of her teaching stunt in Kenya, Thailand and England. Melissa first went to Kenya and taught for a month. There the students take their education seriously. They were sometimes as many as 50 students in a class. Both the girls and the boys shave their head, this can sometimes make it difficult to differentiate the males and the females. They sometimes sit three to a desk. Teaching in the interior in Kenya means you cannot quickly look something up on Google. Melissa also taught in Thailand, this was at a private school. The students had to take an exam to get into the Government Grade 1 classes. In order to get into the best schools you had to perform well on the examination. In England schools are ranked by an outside source and the teachers are randomly assessed. Melissa clearly enjoys teaching and her enthusiasm is very obvious to anyone listening to her. This young lady would undoubtedly make quite an impact on her students. Dave Mitten thanked Melissa Olney on our club's behalf. Pres. Mike then gonged us back to work. |
