Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Day 2 in Tanzania!

Today wvisited the Faraja School for the second time where we both worked in the field and the classroom. In the morning we split up into two groups of nine, and we (Mackenzie and Megan) had the opportunity to go the Kindergarten classroom. Visiting the Kindergarten class was definitely one of our favorite parts of the day. The children are so bubbly and excited. They were happy to have us there and we were so happy to be there.We met a wonderful girl named Naomi. She was very shy in the beginning, but the more we talked to her the more she opened up. She ended up teaching us a lot of words in Swahili such as pua (nose) and duma (cheetah), and we taught her all the different colors in English. We definitely connected and became very good rafikis (friends). In the afternoon the children got to work with Montessori materials, and it was very cool because we remember working with the same materials. Another special moment was when we gave Emmanueli our notebook, and he drew pictures of Megan, Mackenzie, Anoa, and Melissa. He also wrote his name and had each of us write our names with rafiki next to them. We are about to go play games outside and do chores with the children. We also built a basketball hoop so we know it will be a lot of fun! We are so excited, and we look forward to spending the rest of the week here.

- Mackenzie and Megan on behalf of the Kent Place Tanzania Travel Team 
 

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