Hello! So I have been super busy and having too much fun, which has taken away from my ability to keep everyone back home informed on what is going on with me. I promise once I get to site and have more free time I will write better blogs. Pictures are being uploaded to facebook as I type and fingers crossed no power goes off because I am trying to upload all 125 at once...
So things are becoming routine here in uganda so I am finding it difficult to write something that may be of interest to everyone. Today is our last day of school based training and things got progressively better week by week. My ugandan mentor teacher was really supportive near the end and is confident in my ability to be a successful teacher which makes me a little less worried. A fun review I did with my students was chalkboard competitions (which I stole from jacque thanks girl!!) I was really impressed with the amount of information they retained and my mentor loved it and is now giong to copy. That is great because the students loved the game. The other thing I also did that they loved was this week I let them write questions on scraps of paper about me, america, or whatever and answered them the last 10-15 minutes of class. My favorites were in no particular order...
Do you know Lord Vuldermort
Do you know justin bieber, a young artist
Are you a virgin
Do they allow coupling (bfs and gfs) in schools in america
The president of america is my uncle
Can you explain why americans are white
can you teach me how to kiss
DO you like hannah montana
will you take me to america
i love you madam what is your number can i call you
can you sing and will you give us a sample (I did not comply with this request)
So yeah there were a few innappropriate ones but I also got a lot of positive feedback from the students and they really are sad to see us go this week. Yesterday when I was done teaching I went to watch a soccer game where my school unfortunately was beat in kitende. It was really fun to watch them have a good time and support their classmates and I got to talk for a few hours with my mentor teacher and another business teacher at the school who are amazing at what they do and extremely friendly.
Then I went to a club last night with 3 of my brothers (Derrick, Eddie and Mark) and my 3 sisters (Angela, Eddie and Slyvia) I have such a good time hanging out with them, and they are all really good dancers of course. People in uganda got rhythm haha. The music/dj in this small kajjansi club was far better then any club ive been to in the US (this is subjective to my music interest) and i kept up with them pretty well. I kind of get the best of both worlds because I have these siblings that are my age, and I have the little kids in the house as well. My maama is also the sweetest ever, all the trainees that visit my house heart her! She let us use the kitchen to bake brownies and banana bread for the teachers at the school to say thank you and we gave a whole pan to my family and they were quite impressed. (See pictures on fb for how this baking looked) So far they have taught me how to make chapati, potatoes and rolex. How to light a charcoal stove and slowly i am learning how to wash my clothes (I am so bad at it... seriuosly i miss machines my clothes just get wet not clean haha)
So that is all I have for now... pictures have 8 more minutes it says so its looking good guys! Miss everyone!!! I'll be in Lira all next week so I will probably post again when I get back to Lweza!!!
But Aber (Goodnight)
Nikki
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