Know The Principal

The new Middle School and High School principal of Escuela Bella Vista offers a range of both educational and social experiences that encourage personal success for all students. She grew up and lived in Pennsylvania for 17 years, she lived 7 years in Ohio and Arkansas, in Kenya for 6 days, and later went to live in a mud house in a bush without any resources just the dress she was wearing and an extra dress as well as a notebook and a pencil to learn the tribal language. Who is this?

        Dr. Rosie has had a very interesting history , including the many places where she has gone, all of her work, and favorite things. Something that highlights Dr. Rosie is the fact that she started an orphanage and a community school in Madagascar. Also she took a job as an administrator in an international school in Madagascar. Her favorite place in the world is the Mbita Point, in Kenya in Lake Victoria, which is a place where you have to climb a very steep mountain, and when you get up there, there is a woman called Esther Onyango (who lives there in a mud house with her family), and the view shows Lake Victoria which according to Dr. Rosie is “beautiful”.

        Dr. Rosie is good at writing and at learning different languages (she already speaks English, French, Da Luo, sign language, and Malagasy, she has studied Spanish and French, and can hear and understand Slovak). She also loves teaching children how to read.  According to Dr. Rosie she is a bad artist and musician because “I can’t even write my name on a paper unless there is a line on the paper”. She is proud of the mission-work herself and her husband did in Kenya and in Madagascar, as well as the orphanage she made, of her own children, and of finishing her doctoral degree. Her hobbies are reading, writing, and she likes bicycling.

        Dr. Rosie can be described in five words according to herself: “servant, hard-working, word person (not a number’s person), Christian, and a communicator”. Something that she wants everyone to know in EBV is: “I really like Venezuela because I find Venezuelans to be very warm, welcoming, and friendly. I like EBV and love students already and I am just getting started!”