First Week of School

 

This was the first week of school for this school year.  I think we are beginning to be in the routine.  We now are using the 2 classrooms in the Community Center as well as the Assembly Room.  One end of the Assembly Room is set up for the teachers with work place and storage of materials.  The classrooms have new cement floors and the classrooms are painted.  We are moving up!  

 

But there are still things that happen that remind us that we are in Africa.  Yesterday it was pouring so we did have drops of water coming through the ceiling onto the rug where the children were sitting.   One lunch, after a huge rain, the play area was under water – a little pond.  So for the lunch/play break I let the kids go out in their gum boots and play in the water.  Fortunately, no one ended up falling into the water.  Outside gumboots, lined up on the verandah when they come inside, and then barefoot in the classrooms.

 

On the way to the toilet one day the children were intrigued by the large snails they saw.  We looked up snails in a wonderful book we happened to have that had been donated and came over on the last container.  The next morning, the kids had collected about 40 of these large snails on the way to school and we put them in a container with sand and water.  Isaac even found the hole where the snails breathe.  (Did you know that snails breathe?)