April 9, 2009

My school received some visitors from one non-profit organisation in WA, USA. Six people came with a lot of supplies, ideas and energy and entertained my kids for 2 days.

Miss Barbara was occupying them by showing them magic aka chemistry and physics experiments. It was fun to watch...

and participate...

Although end of the term combined with spring met a lot of older students restless and uninterested in anything but flirtations.

Girls flirting with boys...boys flirting with girls...in dark and hot classrooms....
The younger grades were more excited about diffusion, gravity, air expansion and what-nots...

Although, when Miss Barbara started doing air-pressure even the older kids woke up and got all excited. Free balloons!

The next day every 3-year old in my village was walking around chewing random piece of balloon. Just like chewing gum only more durable.

Mr. Eberhard worked with 6 students, teaching them how to use digital cameras. Does not sound like a very vital skill for children living in the rural African village, but my god they had fun! Check out his website at Cameras Without Borders. That was the best thing that probably happened to those kids in a long time. The emotions were running high when I had to choose 6 candidates for this program. It is hard when you have 120 kids and all want to do it, but there are only 6 spots.

The last project they did was to paint a murial in one of the neighboring schools of Madina Wallom. It took Terry 4 days and all her sanity to finish it. I think it is beautiful.

And they left...Now I have all those arts&crafts materials that I need to utilise before I go home.... Can you believe it? I am going home... This whole blog-thing is almost over...