Oraire ota! So today we mostly just
did festival preparation at Bishops High School, where we’ve been for the last
few days. We started by all helping in the Music, Dance and Drama department
with a group of kids I think was the drama club. They taught us some of their
traditional dancing and we practiced the Hoedown Throwdown and Cotton Eyed Joe,
and we also taught them the Dougie. Throughout the day we continued with 2
hours for each fete category, MDD, food and crafts, games, and sports. During
crafts time we drew decorations for the festival and put them up around the
school and around the surrounding town area. My favorite part of the day was
probably games, teaching a group how to play Wah, which is basically just a
game played in a circle with a big group. Some of the teachers joined in and
tried to take control, and they are actually quite scary, but the students were
able to take it back.
Instead
of sports after school, Sunny, Jessica, Angus and I helped Mr. Reed teach his ‘science
club’ about chromatography with an experiment using simple items they could
find here and the chemistry teacher could redo later. The experiment went
really well and the kids picked up the concepts pretty easily and were very
excited to actually see the science that they usually only read about and
memorize. Overall, the day at Bishops was really fun, and watching them learn
and being around their warmth is always fulfilling.
By Diva de Loayza
SOunds like you all have had a great few days. Party planning is always fun-especially when it involves dancing. It must have been meaningful to share all of you science knowledge. I imagine the primary school children loved all the attention from you"big Kids"!! Summer is in full swing in the Northeast. Everyone is gearing up for fourth of July already!! Enjoy sharing your traditions-can't wait to read about all of the adventures ahead. With Love Beth-Jessica's Mom.
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