Eline Gad

Happy new school year! Back at our little corner in Sakumono, many new things have come with the school year, one of the biggest ones being that I am actually no longer in Sakumono, or Ghana! Now entering my 3rd week, I have been at a boarding school in New Hampshire, U.S., which has been a pretty big adjustment for me. But I’m not the only one in a new environment… 4 of our very own readers/ titans: Cornelia, Rebecca, James and Gerald have now been enrolled into a new school as a part of our...

The usual gifts I give TBR students are stationery, storybooks, or cool trinkets, but this Saturday, thanks to the help and support of my cousin, Alyson, and her mom, Aunty Vivian, homemade chocolate chip cookies were today’s pleasant and delicious surprise! 😋 But we did more than just eat this lesson. Our storybook of the day was Dowa, the Caterpillar Who Could Not Stop Eating by Ann-Marie P. Owusu, which touched on the themes of greedines and fitting in. At one point in the lesson, when we...

Happy August! Quick question: how many cities can you list in 1 minute? Today, that and several other prompts were tested on the TBR students with the activity of the day: Board Race. Let’s start from the beginning. Today, I was joined by two friends of mine from school, Sean and Nana Kwame, and together, they managed to bring some chaos yet excitement to TBR. We started off by reading our storybook, Stubborn Kwame by Abena Apea, which follows the light-hearted but good-moraled story of a...