1st August

Today we headed off to a new school, Chipepwete. It was a longer, bumpier journey but there were more modern classrooms and less children so sessions were easier to run. The children also had better English so we could run more complex sessions. We were welcomed by songs and dancing with the guides before we split into smaller groups. Liv and Lucy described  London landmarks on the map they brought to the girl guides and younger group which they found very interesting. They also enjoyed looking through the 3D glasses at their drawings. The boys also enjoyed football with Becca and Georgie and songs with Grace. Lunchtime got very chaotic when we served seconds of the phala, it really opened our eyes to how hungry the kids were.

In the afternoon, we went to the school that is being built (which we were painting last week and is hopefully opening by the end of next week). There had been a bad flood which ruined most of the bricks that the people had been making. So we all worked really hard together on moving all of the broken bricks and piling the bricks that are still okay to put in the kiln to use for the building. It was hot and dirty work but really rewarding when we saw all of the bricks that we had moved and it felt that we had been really productive and helped out. Ellie made a few friends too called Beatrice Emily and Sabina who were very helpful and enjoyed moving the bricks with us. One woman helping us found a mouse and killed for her dinner, we understood she had to simply to eat but it caught us a bit off guard.

We had a lot of ups and downs today but we got through it all together, so overall it was a fun day.

By Liv and Lucy