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Literacy, the Best Remedy
Sep. 8th, 2008 09:36 amI'm using a special icon for today, to celebrate the fact that is is International Literacy Day. Having spent many years overseas in a country where the literacy rate was very low -- especially among women -- I really understand how important it is to promote literacy, not just locally, but all over the world.
Here's an interesting article from Wikipedia about literacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy
I shall be doing my part towards literacy today, in a way -- I am scheduled to teach two women who are wanting to be more literate in English. :-)
In other news, we are sitting waiting for electricians to come to install a smoke alarm (we don't have one yet, yikes!), and to work on one wall of our apartment, that has lots of lovely outlets which seem to be just for show -- for some reason, the wall between both bedrooms has no electricity to any of the outlets. My DH is quite the electrician himself, but he hasn't been able to figure it out; hopefully the pros will be able to!
We have been managing by using a plethora of lengthy extension cords in order to get light and power where we need it, but it can't go on like that. The landlord came by on Saturday and arranged for electricians to come today. So far, no sign of them. They were supposed to be here at 8 am, it is now going on 10 am.
Oh, well! We'll switch off hanging around the place in order to let them in, until we are sure they are not coming today. I'm really hoping they do come, though; it would be very nice to have that taken care of!
Here's an interesting article from Wikipedia about literacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy
I shall be doing my part towards literacy today, in a way -- I am scheduled to teach two women who are wanting to be more literate in English. :-)
In other news, we are sitting waiting for electricians to come to install a smoke alarm (we don't have one yet, yikes!), and to work on one wall of our apartment, that has lots of lovely outlets which seem to be just for show -- for some reason, the wall between both bedrooms has no electricity to any of the outlets. My DH is quite the electrician himself, but he hasn't been able to figure it out; hopefully the pros will be able to!
We have been managing by using a plethora of lengthy extension cords in order to get light and power where we need it, but it can't go on like that. The landlord came by on Saturday and arranged for electricians to come today. So far, no sign of them. They were supposed to be here at 8 am, it is now going on 10 am.
Oh, well! We'll switch off hanging around the place in order to let them in, until we are sure they are not coming today. I'm really hoping they do come, though; it would be very nice to have that taken care of!
