Her host father teaches high school physics and her mother is studying to be a tailor. Kara had been working in an orphanage for girls and some boys. She was helping in the early classes in which the students who come from various ethnic backgrounds learn to speak and write French. Nathan is staying with the family of Daniel Gbe. They live on the compound of a trade school of which Daniel is the director.
Students learn various trades such as woodworking and masonry.
Nathan has been working some in the woodworking shop where he is impressed at how they build furniture with only a photograph of the finished product to guide them. But the first year students are required to use only hand tools to prepare them for work in areas of the country where power tools are not available. Nathan has also helped to organize some of the school's computer files. Angie has been greatly enjoying her huge family. In the mornings she has been helping to teach English to 5th and 6th graders in a private school.