What Keeps Ron Busy: Small Engine Class

And now for another story on what keeps Ron busily happy in his ministry at Rain Forest International School (RFIS) as the Director of Technical Services.  Fifth story:  teaching Small Engines Class.

Ron's small engine class

 This semester Ron’s been teaching a small engine course.  His students got to take apart a small engine, take it apart and start it.  They worked on a motorcycle’s carborator.. then they got to ride the motorcycle.  Ron gave the students some small engines that were not working, and gave them the challenge to figure out what’s wrong with it. 

Driving Practise.

The last week of class, Ron gave his students a small course in driving.  Then he let them drive our van around the campus during class time.  Parallel parking became a lesson in getting unstuck from the mud – a valuable lesson for those living in rural Africa.

Driving lesson: getting unstuck from the mud
Ron got in the driver’s seat to demonstrate rocking back and forth, while the guys pushed.
 
 
But the front wheel was too deep.  So, lacking a shovel, Lyle grabbed a sticck to try to dig the front wheel out.
 
 By this time I had to go.  But as I walked away, Ron was getting a tractor to pull the van out of the mud.  Class was nearly over and they were out of time to dig anymore — besides, it was chapel day and not nice (to their moms) to make them get their chapel clothes muddy.
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