We are starting a new project this week. Every Friday until the end of the summer we will have an after-school activity for elementary schools to teach them through fun activities. It's called the Do-It-Yourself Festival (We had another name picked out but this is what the District Education officer wanted it to be called.). So we set up 6 booths (aka we stand with posters on the ground) in a school field and each booth has a subject like nutrition, environmental safety, life-skills, etc. The kids have a half an hour at each booth and then rotate around for 3 hours so that they see every booth and have time to play games and learn about each subject. We have our first festival on Friday and we hope it goes well. I will let you know how it turns out.
Also it is a national Holiday today Heores' Day so all the schools were out on holiday but since the schools are mostly boarding schools all the students were at the high school. So we went to visit one high school that we are working with because they had a track meet. And somehow we got roped into running a 400 meter race. I won but that's besides the point. It was so funny. As we were walking to start the race the announcers were like "It's the race of the century". They were so excited to see us Americans racing in their track meet.
3 comments:
congrats on winning the race!
That sounds like a lot of fun. That is impressive that you won a 400m race. I didn't know you were a sprinter. By the way, my neighbor from Uganda said "Manzi" means Hero in their language. You should ask them about it.
Nice that you won the race, did you push all the little kids down on your way to victory?
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