After three hours of trying to upload photos until the small hours of the morning ... I've given up on that for the moment ... even when I thought I had bandwidth because it was very late ... it turns out that students were downloading apps in their bedrooms!!
Having said that the students have been amazing ... last night when we were all tired after a long day, they still gathered together to improve the lessons they had delivered in the day. Today, we saw the benefit of that time together because the lessons were even better. The Tanzanian students were active and engaged in their learning today about numbers, animals and colours ... the BES students had a lot of fun and great interaction.
We finished the day again with sports, netball, football, volleyball and basket ball with hordes of students, at least twice as many as last night ... football finished 1 - 1 satisfying both teams.
Tomorrow we go to Dodoma school, established in the 1950's for a comparison with the much newer Umonga, we will teach a lesson, observe teaching and then be involved in the local derby ... Umonga v Dodoma at football and netball. I have been very impressed with the skills level of the footballers and netball is improving. Our footballers and netballers will be part of each team and I will be the football referee to ensure it doesn't get too rough!
The students are now settling in for a quiet night ... hopefully without the mild drama of a visit to the hospital of last night ... James M is doing fine today and has taken part in everything except the sports.
All the very best for now,
Mr L
Thanks for the update, we look forward to reading it everyday. We have found what we think is your hotel on Google Earth and I assume it is teh new one just South of the runway at Dodoma airport?
ReplyDeleteI believe you are correct ... We are close to the runway and it is a new hotel ... If you search for the giftland hotel we are just behind that (run by the same operator).
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