Besides being called Obruni all the time (meaning white person) we also have been greeted in the following way which I just find absolutely hilarious... "White, good evening." We're still unsure of the proper way to respond to this besides by waving and saying hello!
Sunday we took a walk through the market and tested our bargaining skills, which we need to work on! Sunday was also the day we searched for food all afternoon! We knew that Sunday's a lot of stores are closed because people attend church but we didn't realize we'd have such a hard time finding at least something small to eat! It was definitely a lesson learned: make sure we have our own food on Sunday's!
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| Market Shopping |
This week has been our first week of work and it's been busy and very tiring. It seems that work keeps being added to our schedule so last night we finallly sat down as a group and made a workshop schedule. So, as of now we will be doing MDG workshops Monday-Wednesday morning at the YMCA school, Monday and Tuesday afternoons we will be helping the students with reading and writing, Thursday and Fridays we will be at the Opportunity Industrialization Center (OIC) working with the students and the teachers. We will be teaching the MDGs to the teachers and we will be helping the teachers with proposal writing, project management, fundraising and leaderships skills.
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| Our 2nd year students at the YMCA school |
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| Us playing the Shrinking Island game! |
Sounds pretty interesting. Keep up the good work and keep up the blog
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