These past couple of weeks I have realised how unorganised it can be here. When the Headmistress is away for the day, most of the government teachers don’t seem to care what the kids get up to. This includes not making them come to the English and Gardening sessions we hold for them. This can be frustrating at times but we’ve learnt to adapt and find other work to do instead. One thing we are never short of is work.
The school has 5 key values to uphold: Thankfulness, Independence, Growth, Excellence and Respect, or TIGER for short. We have designated 5 areas to represent these values around the school. This week we started on ‘the Thankfulness wall’, some volunteers came in to help whitewash the walls, which was pretty tricky given our tools (large brushes made from straw). Very messy.
This week also included the biggest day yet in terms of progress in the garden. Thursday 21st February was grass laying day! 5 volunteers came to school and in 1 day we laid 700 square feet of grass throughout the garden. It was not easy either! It was a hot day with no shade to protect us but we powered on nevertheless and there was a real sense of achievement when we finished.
The rest of these 2 weeks were spent planting more plants including the cacti in the front of the school and the book cupboards arrived so we had a lot more painting to do.
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