Whistles

Ok, so after an epic safari, headed back to the villages for 10 days ... it was a week of hard work, we managed to fit in lots of teachings to schools, community groups etc and have organised our big SIC testing day for next Wednesday, advertising it as SIRI, BURE HARAKA....fast free and confidential! Hopefully there will be a record turn out ... so teachings went really well, teaching reproductive health to 150 girls in a primary school classroom was certainly a challenge, 30 footballers the same day, some life skills and their goals and dreams, related to why its so important for them to stay healthy etc, we made a paper chain of all of them which they loved - im definately racking up my numbers of african gap yahhh photos hah surrounded by ... read more

DAY 3 - ORIENTATION We headed off to Peacehouse, our base for the next 1.5weeks of orientation. Peacehouse is a secondary school where kids go whose families have been affected by HIV AIDS. We all had to sit next to a teaching partner on the bus to build upon our TNZ, Westerner relationship. I sat next to Elibahti who is studying Law at Arusha Uni. The journey was about 20mins, we were all mixed up into Dorms of bunk beds and skinny foam mattresses before having lunch and heading to afternoon lessons. Routine over the past weeek has been pretty similar- wake up 7am, SWAHILI lessons from 8am-10am, led by Nai, our teacher where we have sung songs, learnt greetings, verbs and tenses, weekdays, numbers, food, market lingo, before being given homework each night to do! ... read more