Every day feels as though it is a landmark. Nearly 3 weeks in Africa and I still can’t believe it. I often find myself day dreaming about the stories I will tell 50 years from now about this experience. And then I realize how large a portion of my adventure is still ahead of me!
Yesterday started in the early hours of night. Two new people arrived at Lucas’ house around 2 am; I woke up briefly, checked the time only to find it was a completely unreasonable hour to get out of bed to greet someone, went back to bed and waited until morning to say hi. Maggie and Sarah are from America and Uganda, respectively, and have come to teach about a program called Global StoryBridge and implement a site at Hope Girls and Boys School. I think it’s super special how many visitors these kids are having from other countries, it adds so much to their experience and variety of knowledge.
The day started by taking the school bus with Jovin and Rebecca. I was supposed to do more exam score input again, but was hindered by exams not being graded. Hopefully today I will be able to get it done because teachers are now asking me when scores will be ready. The rest of my day was spent with 3 teachers (Samwel, Pamela, and Lameck) and Maggie and Sarah. I’m happy how many new programs are popping up this year for the kids, I love being busy and the more stuff going on, the better. I went on the bus route again yesterday. I’m really enjoying this, it’s a good break in between school and going home. There are also these two adorable 2-year-old twins that go on the bus, so that’s a bonus. Two or three days ago (I forget), a parent was mad that the bus was late in dropping off his kids and threatened to fight the driver next time it happened. I didn’t think anything came of it—so yesterday when we were going on the route I noticed it had changed a bit. Turns out administration decided to make his kids the last stop on the route in a wonderfully petty move!
Once home, the day ended pretty quickly. I worked with Sarah and Maggie a little bit learning the how to use some softwares the kids will be using for their video projects. Dinner was delicious and then I practiced some guitar and went to bed.