So this is going to be the last blog I write before I come home
because I should be home in less than 2 weeks at this point! Yay!
haha
So as you all should know December 1st was World AIDS Day and I had
some events planned in my village to raise awareness. First, my girls
club performed two skits and a song at the two secondary schools in
town. That was more of the educational side of the day. The next
event was a football match between my girls club and Chelsea's girls
club. Unfortunately we lost but the game went well. The girls had a
good time playing and it was the first time the schools did something
together without an incident occurring so thats good. I also made
AIDS ribbons and passed them out to all the girls and some of the
spectators. Finally, that night we put on a dance. The dance didnt
really have an educational component but was more just a large scale
event to make people know it was World AIDS Day. So hopefully
everyone in Fadugu at least knows approximately when World AIDS Day
is.
Now it is exam week at school. The exam committee decided (excluding
myself who just so happens to be chairman of said committee) that the
students should only have one exam a day and we should save some exams
for after the break to try and ensure students will come back on time.
First, having one exam a day means we are only at the school a
maximum of 3 hours and after the students leave I am pretty sure they
arent going to study all day for the next exam which was the
committees hope. Rather the students will just walk around town idly
or their parents will just put them to work all day. Second, I am
fairly certain that no students will study over the break so they will
probably forget everything before sitting the exams that come after.
Also, even though we have exams I still expect only 20 or so kids to
come the first day after break. But I have decided to pick and choose
my battles and didnt feel like arguing with the committee about the
exam schedule. I would much rather focus on making sure all the
results come out fair this year and students arent promoted that
failed all their subjects.
I am pretty much done with my World Map Project! I just have to label
the countries and maybe give a few one more coat of paint so they
really show clear. I will have to take a picture to show all of you
my new found artistic talents.
Now I am preparing my girls for the Girls Conference the Peace Corps
are putting on. For the session I am co-leading we have some skits in
it so both of us leading the session have to teach our girls the
skits. So I am meeting with two girls to work on that everyday.
Other than that I have been pretty free so I have been charging my
computer a lot and watching a lot of tv shows. ha And by a lot I mean
max 2 hours worth but that seems like tons to me now! I just started
watching the Game of Thrones. It is really good!
Okay well this is long enough for now. I will see you all soon enough
to tell you everything in person!
