First Day

Hello Everyone!

I'm starting this blog of our project in South Central Los Angeles at Messiah Full Gospel Bible Fellowship. Today was our very first day of class. We will be meeting for nine weeks for two hours every Saturday.

I arrived at 9:15 am, and the first thing we did was setup the room we'll be holding the course in. It's held inside a small trailer just outside the church. Pastor Vincent was there to help me, and we arranged the tables and chairs and cleaned up the trailer. When the kids started coming, I had them help me decorate the inside of the trailer with The Way to Happiness posters and our banner.

After a few introductions and creating name badges, one of the first things we did was a few assessment tests. This is so we'll be able to see how much progress we made at the end of the course. I gave out three assessments.

A Computer Questionnaire.

A Questionnaire about Morals.

A Reading Assessment.

Then we went over the parts of the laptops and had the kids make their name labels for the laptops and decorate their laptop boxes. We are using the Dell Mini 10 in light blue.

Next we watched three short videos...

One about happiness and how your happiness is affected by the actions of others.

One about taking care of yourself.

One about being temperate (not taking doing things in extreme).

We had discussions about each topic.

We then played some educational activities and games on the computers. Most of the kids played an IQ boasting game donated to us by Mind Sparke.

As the kids left we gave them some snacks (thanks to the Pastor) and promised to see them again next week.

Check back next Saturday to hear about our progress...