On Wednesday we continued with Summer school. I played football with my class and after lunch we had brick laying and continued with making rockets from the previous days. Maxim from my original class and from my summer school class randomly walked out of our last lesson and didn't explain where he was going. 5 minutes later he turns up and hands my a hot hard boiled egg. He had brought an egg in from home and during the lesson had gone off and cooked it and brought it to me.
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| Brick laying |
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| Maxim and the egg. |
On Thursday we had sports day between the houses of the summer school: Hippos, Lions, Gorillas and Elephants (my house). By the time sports day started the Elephants were doing pretty badly, sitting sadly in last place, but sports day was the chance for us to turn it around and win. The sports day consisted of races: sprint, javelin (throwing a ball) , skipping, egg and spoon race, wheelbarrow race and a couple of others. Each race was competed between 2 of each house between each year group. P3 would race each race first and then each year after wards. The Elephants were winning almost every race they were competing in, and in the javelin the Elephants came first in literally every year for it, with an impressive win from Maxim.
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| Close race. |
The elephants had been absolutely dominating the sports day and coming towards the end of the day we looked as though we were in the lead. But we hit a snag, for the last couple of events we couldn't seem to find the students who were supposed to be competing, they had either decided they didn't want to compete or had accidentally sat in a different house, not knowing they were in the wrong one. As a result we had no one competing 3 or 4 races, the difference between the houses was tight. But the last race of the sports day was a race between the volunteers, representing the Elephants was myself and Kya. The race was reminiscent of the great race of 1872. Prayers were made, curses were uttered, our loved ones cried as they waved us off and then we had, begun. It was weird as I was actually genuinely scared and nervous about the race, it was like the beginning of an exam. At the end of the race both I and Dec were running off to our respective houses celebrating winning the race. Confusion was rife, nails were bitten, questions were asked, what was to happen? And then someone came forward, the race had been filmed, we would find out who won. Even when watching the race on the camera it was almost impossible to tell who won, buuuuuut it was voted that I won. SO SCREW YOU DEC! ;) ;)
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| Handing out medals. |
After the race was the ceremony to show who the winner of the Summer school was. Annnnnnd, the ELEPHANTS WON! To be honest I think myself and the other Elephant volunteers were more happy than the actual elephant students. We were told to bring up 2 students from the house who had made a massive contribution and give them the trophy to lift, Freddie chose one of the students and then I chose Maxim. They both came up, medals around their necks and then lifted the trophy to the cheers of the Elephant house. After the celebrations where the trophy was toured around the elephants we said goodbye to our students and Moses gave me some sugarcane and some other students gave me some letters. On my walking down the road into town where I would be playing a football game, I start hearing someone yelling 'TEACHER ADAM!' repeatedly, I turned around to see Martin sprinting barefooted down the dirt road with my back pack on his back. Seems I may of left it at the sports day field.
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| ELEPHANTS!!!! |
None of the volunteers bar myself, Dec, Sam and the team leaders were in the mood for the football game so we only had 5 or 6 players, as a result we were made to take some of the opposition players onto our team. The game was a pretty tough one, the guys we were playing had boots and shin pads while we were all just in our trainers, which put us at a slight disadvantage. The guys were going in pretty hard for what should be a 'friendly' game and as a result after being 2 goals down I may of slightly lost my temper at one guy who had been kicking me for the last 30 minutes and may of been told to calm it slightly by the referee. Suffice to say we lost 3-1, and were mightily pissed off for the journey back to the lodge.
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| Ramsen in his new shoes and Sheffield shirt. |
Dec and I asked to get out the van on the road leading up to the lodge as we wanted to go and see Ramsen and give him my old pair of converse and Dec's old Sheffield United shirt. We walked down to the football pitch hoping to see Ramsen to give the gifts, but he wasn't there so we tried to go back to his village to see if he was there. Along the way we saw Ramsen and got to give him the things, he was delighted with them and was really thankful.
Back at the lodge we had some drinks and started packing to get ready for the safari tomorrow, before going to bed.
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| Best photo ever (courtesy of Freddie) |
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