Hodge Podge

As anticipated, our school-free Tuesday was mostly spent doing laundry, lesson planning, and scrolling through iPhoto, reliving the memories from the trip thus far. We were, however, also graciously invited to the home of Rwentutu’s Headmaster, Wilson, where we met his beautiful family and enjoyed a lavish meal prepared by his wife.

His family was recently forced to relocate in effect of the Kilembe floods. 

After the holiday, the week continued accordingly.

In math, our focused remained on the passage of time, so to help exemplify the processes that occur over time, I brought in The Very Hungry Caterpillar for a lesson. We first read the book together to find some fluency in the plot. Then, I rewrote the story in hopes that my students would find some relevance in the fact that our caterpillar is more interested in mandazi and chapatti than strawberries and cupcakes.

After the class reorganized the events of the story based on chronologic labels, each student chose a piece of the story to illustrate, until together we had created Rwentutu’s Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

We read our remix aloud and then hung it up in the 

P2 Learner’s Corner that I finally finished this week.

They can’t get enough of that book!

Speaking of very hungry, at long last and no doubt a great deal of audience anticipation, we have finally completed our first and only slaughter. 

We killed our chicken and ate it, too. 

Understandably, the process was gruesome, so I’ll keep it short.

Because we were gifted another, fatter chicken on our scheduled slaughter day, famous Frank has been spared once more. Bwambale, however, did not fare so well. After a lot of screaming, one blunt knife, and a good amount of feather debris, I have a whole new appreciation for the tolerance of a butcher. (An important side note for those who’ve been asking, it would have definitely run around with its head cut off, had Juliet not been standing on top of its feet and wings.)

Anyways, back to school.

The big event of the week was the teachers versus students soccer game.

Wilson stood guard of the net and probably saved about 25 goals throughout the match.

Baby Evans was named mascot of the year, too.

I know you’re not really interested in the logistics of all that “winning” and “losing” stuff, so we’ll just say that everybody had a great time and that there are some sneaking suspicions that those kids might’ve had a few FUFA players on their team.

We rounded out the week with a trip to the rain forest for chimp tracking today.

Ready for the wild.

The foliage was incredible.

Most of the chimps that we saw were hunting, so they were constantly swinging through the trees and roaming the forest floor.

After many failed attempts, we finally got some evidence of our sightings.

The chimp whisperers 10 miles later.

And to top off our already eventful day, we met four more elephants on our way back to Kasese.

These two… 

were definitely… 

the coolest.

With another big week ahead, I’ll sign off now. We have a group of Canadian soccer coaches coming tomorrow, so there will be a lot of excitement at the school this week for sure.