For this week and last week we have been staying with a host family. It is nice to sleep in a bed again even if we have to sleep under mozzie nets and be woken up be a particularly loud cockerel. We are staying with a lady called Mma Shana, her daughter Cecie and son Ned. We get along really well with Cecie, who is 15 going on 20. They're introducing us to lots of different foods- beans make a common appearance! It is hit or miss whether the water is working and even if it is, sometimes our shower consists of a bucket of water. We have become a dab hand at local transport, everyone gets taxis everywhere but they act like buses- people share them. It's an odd experience cramming into the back of a taxi with random people! We have made friends with one driver called Juta, who is fab at picking us up whenever we call whilst blasting hip-hop music.
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| Mma Shana's house |
Mma Shana also runs one of the pre-schools we worked at called Little Wings. There are only 5 kids ranging from 18months to 6 years, and the school is run pretty well. The eldest helps to translate what the younger ones are saying. They learn the alphabet, numbers, colours and shapes all in english but they have plenty of play-time too. We eat things like pap and stew with our fingers before the kids take an afternoon nap in the floor.
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| Rutendo and Bethwell |
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| Abbey |
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| Class time |
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| Play time |
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| Katlo |
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| Hard at work |
We also worked at Motse pre-school where there are roughly 40 kids, occasionally split into 2 classes. This was a whole different experience! There was no english spoken by kids or teachers and we were left in charge of chaos when the teachers disappeared. The majority of the kids are adorable but they do fight violently. Even as teachers we fell victim to punches and bites, but this didn't stop us having a great time and trying to teach them Granny's footsteps and duck, duck, goose. The singing and dancing may have been our favourite part- they are all so enthusiastic!
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| Morning dancing with Chantell, Angelar, Ame, Omaatla and Masego |
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| Phatsimo breaking it down |
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| Reatile, Shaqcon, Oletang and Nako are very enthusiastic! |
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| Bosele and Sharon |
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| New clothes for the whole class |
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| Chantell is not concentrating |
Mma Shana also runs one of the pre-schools we worked at called Little Wings. There are only 5 kids ranging from 18months to 6 years, and the school is run pretty well. The eldest helps to translate what the younger ones are saying. They learn the alphabet, numbers, colours and shapes all in english but they have plenty of play-time too. We eat things like pap and stew with our fingers before the kids take an afternoon nap in the floor.
We also worked at Motse pre-school where there are roughly 40 kids, occasionally split into 2 classes. This was a whole different experience! There was no english spoken by kids or teachers and we were left in charge of chaos when the teachers disappeared. The majority of the kids are adorable but they do fight violently. Even as teachers we fell victim to punches and bites, but this didn't stop us having a great time and trying to teach them Granny's footsteps and duck, duck, goose. The singing and dancing may have been our favourite part- they are all so enthusiastic!
Katlo totally wins the cute-factor...
ReplyDeleteThey all look like great fun! :)
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