Another Day Building... Away for the Weekend!

Today I woke up at 7:30, had some breakfast with the rest of the gang, and walked out to the elementary school to continue packing bricks on the new room we are constructing. I haven’t been stacking the bricks for the last couple of days, because I’ve either been in the classroom helping teach, or getting more supplies for the construction site. I stacked bricks up till one o’clock, and then Kate brought us some lunch at the site, instead of going back to the normal dining area. We did this just to make as much progress as possible before we go on our weekend trip, which is white water rafting or hiking. I think I’m going to hike because of three reasons: 1) I want to hike as much as possible before Kilimanjaro (~2 weeks away) 2) The rapids are going to be class 2 and maybe one class 3 rapid, which isn’t much to write home about 3) No one else is going hiking, at least I don’t think, and I’d love a weekend away from some of these younger kids. So tomorrow we will stack bricks in the morning, have some lunch, and then head off for our weekend trip. I don’t know the exact location of where we’re going, but I’m sure I’ll have the name when I post next on my blog. Tonight we watched “Sarafina” with some of the 8th graders from the local school. They are doing a project about children’s rights, so we watched the movie with them, and then got into smaller groups and discussed what we got out of the film. It was interesting to hear what some of the kids had to say, because a lot of them deal with the same situations that occur in the film.