Nata river

Nata has been hit hard with powerful rains and the river is flowing once again. This year the water level in the river did not raise above last years level. The rains have caused Nata Village to flourish all around the comunity with green grass and trees. 😀

Nata village Project

The Nata village and the Sua Secondary School Health Club and Nata’s primary school drew and painted murals teaching the community on staying healthy and keeping an eye on their health. They have worked hard on this project and hope that the message will change the Nata village

 

No Child left behind in Nata village

The Nata Primitary school had no problems getting students into the schools. The population in Nata help more and more children register to the primitary schools. Teahcers will leave no child behind, but will create outside classrooms. Education is very important to the nata

Nata Village Can go on internet

The Nata Village can finnaly go on the internet but there is only three locations in the Nata village that can access the world wide web. The first location is the Nata village Post office which has six computers, The second location is the wild butchery that has four computers and the last location is the North Gate lodge.

Vocab 4/28/09

auspicious-promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
belie-to show to be false; contradict: His trembling hands belied his calm voice.
bellicose-inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious

bowdlerize-to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
chicanery-trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.

Laptops help sick kids stay connected to school, frie

A third-grader at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, Ahmed hasn’t seen much of his class in the past few months. That’s because he was diagnosed with leukemia 1½ years ago. Although he’s in remission, he’s still susceptible to complications.

“Ahmed has shown us, over and over again, he gets a fever at the drop of a hat, and has been in the intensive care unit several times. He tends to get infections a lot,” says his doctor, Dr. Aziza Shad, an oncologist in the children’s ward of the Lombardi Cancer Center in Washington. Shad notes he is otherwise doing very well and has “an excellent prognosis.”

Vocab Words 4/8/09

extol

(v.) to praise, revere (Kamila extolled the virtues of a vegetarian diet to her meat-loving boyfriend.)

fabricate

(v.) to make up, invent (When I arrived an hour late to class, I fabricated some excuse about my car breaking down on the way to work.)

feral

(adj.) wild, savage (That beast looks so feral that I would fear being alone with it.)

flabbergasted

(adj.) astounded (Whenever I read an Agatha Christie mystery novel, I am always flabbergasted when I learn the identity of the murderer.)

forsake

(v.) to give up, renounce (I won’t forsake my conservative principles.)

Gates announces major Pentagon priority shifts

The priorities include a stronger institutional commitment to the military’s all-volunteer force, a decision to “rebalance” defense programs to better fight current and future conflicts, and “fundamental overhauls” of the military’s procurement, acquisition and contracting process. Among other things, Gates called for production of the Air Force’s most expensive fighter, the F-22 Raptor, to be phased out by fiscal year 2011. He also called for terminating a proposed fleet of 23 presidential helicopters estimated to cost more than $13 billion. The proposed fleet, he noted, was originally projected to cost $6.5 billion. It “has fallen six years behind schedule and runs the risk

Vocab Words 03/12/2009

precipitous: of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
quasar:

one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.

quotidian: daily: a quotidian report.
recapitulate: to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
reciprocal: given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.

What will happen to T.I.’s career?

The self-proclaimed “King of the South” will be sticking around, thanks to the success of his most recent album — the double-platinum, Grammy-nominated “Paper Trail,” released last September — his community service efforts and a reality show on MTV that has resonated with fans, they say.

“I think that if anything, it will gain him more fans and actually support his fan base, because he’s talked about making a mistake,” said Emil Wilbekin, editor in chief of Giant Magazine, which focuses on urban music and lifestyle and featured T.I. on its November 2008 cover. “He’s talked about taking care of the error of his ways.”