Activities at Sakeji - Week 1

This past weekend, Mylon and I had the duty to teach crafts to the grade 3 and 4 boys. We had so much fun teaching them how to make “The World's Best Paper Airplane”. The boys were so excited. We had a contest of who's plane would go the farthest and the winner got this really complicated, cool-looking paper airplane that I made before the craft. Here's a picture of our little class. Now I'm stuck making all the boys the harder paper airplanes because they are all jealous. It's kind of fun though, so I don't mind.

We also have to play games with them on Thursday afternoons. We played Capture the Flag. Girls against boys with all the little Junior kids again. They really like it when the adults play with them, so we did. During the game, one little girl excitedly told me “Mr. Ollila is very fast, but the children are faster!” I love the random quotes you hear kids say. Today another girl told me that “yesterday I was wearing a dress as tall as a tree”. Anyway, here's a picture of some little guys racing:

In other news, to our amazement, someone here has a punching bag and gloves! WHATTT?!?!? We were so excited. We've worked out once on it so far. It felt so good to do a bit of boxing again. Me and the lady it belongs to (she's actually a kick-boxer) are going to set a specific time each week so we can work out together. I'm really looking forward to that. And to make the work out even better, Sakeji is located at a higher altitude than we are used to. I'm not sure how much exactly, but it is a little noticeable when you are running with kids etc.

Well I am going to go read my book and then go to bed. Breakfast is a 7am all week, so we have to be ready and out the door nice and early.

Goodnight.