Great start to the trip today with our first visit to the school. Scenes resembling Obama leaving the White House occurred as we approached the children. Swarms of excited children charged towards us and before we knew it we had two on each limb! The students are great and we had lots of fun playing football, rounders and the occasional "everyone chase Sam" as Sam stood, completely baffled, as 200 screaming children started running towards him. I'll never forget his face.
Highlight of the day: seeing the surprise and pure fascination on the faces of the children when presented with glue and glitter. It makes you realise how much we have.
Challenge: Not being able to give presents to individual students was hard, especially when they asked for something to remember us by.
I have learnt that Fraser is more excited by Nando's sauce than anything and even Nando's sauce can't tempt Jack to eat a whole portion of food.
We're all alive anyway and I'll leave you with the quote of the day from Max "I could have Mr. Cocker next to my bed to send me to sleep"
Jess
I enjoyed reading about your first day at the school- it is such a wonderful and overwhelming experience to meet the children on mass! Sounds like Sam got the brunt of it... Say hi to Ospeck and Angelina- they are great people. Hope you enjoy going to a church service in Zambia- it's very different!!
ReplyDeleteBrenton Wait (Restore Church)