Monday was our first day of school, Mengo Primary school. In primary there was 2/3 people in my class, Amy was in a class of 8. Monday, one of my classes had 89 and the other 83, in one small classroom! EEK! Amy's class had 73. The children attend school from 7.30am until 5.30 pm, yet they only have about 2 classes a day. Because of the large class numbers work is slow pace, and what they would learn in a day we may have covered in an hour. However we must remember that school is taught in English, which isnt their first language.
After school we ventured once again into the City (and almost got squished by a lorry). We met some locals that are friends of the volunteers and then went to the craft fair, which hosted a vast amount of hand-made souvenirs. That night we went to an outside concert at the national theatre of all kinds of music, Tom Jones to Reggae. It felt weird because the ratio of Mazoongu to locals was about 30:70, when usually it is about 1:1000. That night we stayed at one of the volunteers friend's house and I had my first experience of a "squatty potty". I'll not go into details there. On the matatu home, locals tried selling us a plethora of items in the windows-from sweets to bulbs and everything in between. For a country that uses English as it's official language, sometimes they just understand NO! We arrived home with some new bug bites, tired but excited to see the kids again.
We are going to try and upload some pictures so you can see the kids and where we are. We cannot believe we are almost a week here.......x
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