Everyone meet Phoebe!!! She is the very first special needs
intern at GSF. She graduated in May from Georgia College and State University
(Yes, Cody and I went there, too). She spent her summer working at a camp in
Montana, got engaged, and is now interning here with me for 3 months!!! She is
already such a blessing to us here. She
is interested in everything going on here, jumps right in, helps with Nolan,
and is helping make great changes to the special needs program! It is fun to
have someone with the same background and passion for children with special
needs around to laugh and work with. She
came at just the right time, too since I could not do this without her and
manage Nolan at the same time.
Cody and I
met Phoebe last year when we spoke at Georgia College and State University on
Furlough. My favorite professor asked me to come share what we are doing in
Uganda with the special education majors there.
I was thrilled when she emailed about seriously coming and interning
with us for three months. She arrived at
the end of August and will leave at the end of November…if we let her go…just
kidding!
It is
really neat to have someone here that also went to the same school as us. We
have had fun conversations about school, restaurants, Milledgeville, Georgia,
life in the South, and professors. It is
fun to talk about the special needs program at school since we both went
through the same program…even though a went through it A LONG time before her
;)
Together we
are working on implementing assistive communication into the lives of the
children with special needs at GSF. We
have cleaned out the sensory room and are creating new jobs and activities for
the children to participate in throughout the day. While some of the children
were at home from school on holiday, she did a lot of tutoring in order to figure
out what is going on with some of our special needs students. I am so thankful
for her time and efforts to do things that I could not do by myself. We are so grateful to God for bringing her at
this time, for her heart towards these kids, and her help in this time of need!
