We woke up knowing that Kelly had already left the lodge a
few hours earlier at 5am for a 10 hour journey to Kampala. As I woke up I was
wondering my head felt so cold, before I remembered having my hair shaved off.
I left for school with a hat on, as I wanted to surprise the
staff and pupils. The classes were all in exams so I showed the staff first who
were very amused and pleased by my new ‘Ugandan’ haircut. At break when all the
children were outside for their porridge, I went out and found my class and
showed them my haircut. The kids went nuts for my head, and soon almost every
pupil at the school was hanging around staring at my head and trying to feel
it.
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| After revision |
After break, I, Kya, Katie and Siobhan marked some exam
papers. It was incredibly frustrating seeing the simple mistakes that a lot of
the kids made. Such as writing the answer to a question under the wrong
question, clearly not reading what the question was asking and simple spelling
mistakes. It was also clear when marking the exams that some kids have clear
learning difficulties which Uganda still does not recognize, and as a result
these kids often fail the year and have to retake, I currently have a 13 year
old and several 12 year olds in a class which should really be for 9/10 year
olds.
After lunch, me and Siobhan went to help my P4 class to
revise. I did some English examples on the board for them for 20 minutes before
they asked for help in social studies, which neither of us teach, or know how
to teach. As a result we looked through their exercise books and Siobhan began
testing and teaching the class while I sat with the kids and watched. After
half an hour we began playing some games, and I started trying to get the kids
around me to misbehave to wind up teacher Siobhan. All the kids kept putting my
hat on and feeling my head, as well as continuously asking for photos. During
this time there was an almighty thunder storm going on which made the whole
class extremely excitable and meant there was yelling continuously by both the
kids and us. I have never in my life heard thunder like I did during that
lesson; it was extraordinarily loud and went on for so long each time it
happened. It was also extremely close by because almost as instantly as the
room lit up from the lightening the classroom was being rocked by deafening
thunder.
Once back at the lodge we were put into our groups for
summer school and put to brainstorming what the theme of summer school will be.
The theme that was chosen by the lodge was the ‘future’. So this means that our
groups have to plan our lessons around the theme of future. I’m in P4B group
doing English with Emily and Caz. After all this was sorted out we had dinner
of mash, spaghetti and aubergine sauce. Finally before bed, myself, Sam and TLT
(Team Leader Tom) stayed up and watched ‘The Usual Suspects’, which I can’t
believe I hadn't seen before due to how good a film it is. |
| My class |
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