Students are now in their second week of service at schools that are spread through out the island. Tom Meyers (Director of International Education) has visited half of the students in the unit this week while Pat McFarlane has returned to Goshen to attend to some personal matters.

The week started with a visit to the Deaf Village where Charity is teaching children and adults who live in a planned community that is intended to provide a home for deaf people as well as opportunities for them to learn life skills. Charity lives in an apartment at the village with a young deaf woman.

About twenty minutes south of Mandeville is the small village of Knockpatrick. Angie, Hilary, Michelle and Rebekah are assisting in classes there at one of the CCCD (Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf) schools. The students live on the campus in a dormitory. On the morning of the visit Michelle received a gift from an admirer from the north.

Four SSTers are in the bustling capital city of Kingston. Laura and Leslie are at another CCCD school that is in the heart of the city near the infamous intersection of Half Way Tree. In addition to assisting teachers they have worked in the school library and the campus office. They live on campus and are completely immersed in this setting.

Across the city to the east in the uptown area of Kingston is an impressive high school (Lister Mair Gilby High School) for the deaf. Isaac is teaching a variety of subjects to deaf students. One day he works with math and the next science or another subject. He has also been active in the athletic program of the school.

Finally, Doug is spending his time with very young children in a preschool program that combines both hearing and deaf children. The program is designed to prepare the children to get ready to move into primary school and in particular to develop their signing skills.

Felica Campbell, sign language instructor during the study program, traveled with Tom to Kingston and Charity also was on the trip in the role of interpreter. Felicia knows many deaf educators across the island and was warmly greeted at each site.