Today I got to ride down the Lefaga Junior Secondary School in the far Southwest corner of Upolu. The mission: Meet with the pule (principal) to discuss their computers. The problem: I arrived at the school and no one was there. No teachers. No students. No janitors. And. most importantly, no pule. I'll try again next week.

The deal is that I am taking over a SPA (small project assistance) grant that another PCV, KellyAnn Roberts, had set up for the school. When KellyAnn departed Samoa prematurely, I stepped up to fill her role.

The grant is for peripheral equipment for 3 computers that were donated to the school by some juice company in Florida. I needed to talk to the pule to verify that the items on the list that KellyAnn gave are still needed and to talk about buying other things with money I planned to save by calling in contacts to get a discount.

After I get all the equipment purchased and in place, I'm going to set up and training schedule to educate all the teachers so that their computer program can be self sustaining. It should be a fun project.