On Thursday my parents were scheduled to drive Mrs. Kapaale, a teacher at George Benson Christian College, to a remote village school called Chiili so that she could observe a student teacher. I had heard my mom talk about this school a lot, so I decided to go along for the ride. It took us four hours to get there because of the condition of the road (in the U.S. on a good road the trip would have taken about an hour and a half). The road to the school is so bad that the only transport in and out of the village is a truck that comes twice a week to deliver supplies.
When we arrived, the students were getting ready to have sports practice. My mother and I walked with them down to the field and watched as they ran the 200 meter dash. We noticed that only one out of ten of the students had a pair of shoes, but they ran as fast as they could on the rocky dirt path anyway! We also watched as they played soccer with a ball made out of string and plastic bags.
2 comments:
Hi Sara, Did you notice that the boy in the yellow holding the ball looks like Kadeem - intelligent eyes and that smile!
He does look like Kadeem! I miss that boy already.
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