Saturday started with some good old fashioned hard work. With the help of John, one of the founders of the Low Gillerthwaite Field Center we managed to build a 'Bug Boutique' from scratch. You may find yourself asking, what is a 'Bug Boutique'? Well, it's basically a bug hotel. Around a ton of bricks were chain-ganged up a big hill to build the frame, which was then separated into different levels with various types of habitat for various types of bugs, nicely finished off with a sign skillfully crafted by Tamzin. While this was going on a few of us got to grips with sawing logs for the fire; people never believe you when you tell them the key to using a hand saw is not to try, but to just move the blade. It's like using the force...
After a well earned lunch of cheese sandwiches lovingly prepared by Baba Dons cook team we got back to it. This time 'it' was something a little less like hard work. The group had a drama, music and language session followed by a lesson planning session. When out in Tanzania we hope to show the Tanzanian students how our schools work and the different types of learning and teaching we have in the UK. The aim of the session was to prepare a 5 minute starter which would get a Tanzanian class warmed up and ready to learn all about what the teachers have in store for the lesson. My group focused on Science experiments which can be carried out using only materials found in rural Tanzania. We came up with exploring density by trying to float boiled and un-boiled eggs, but disaster struck when the egg cracked as we boiled it.
The evening led onto more lesson planning and the group contract, which lines out how everyone is expected behave and what responsibilities we all have while out in Tanzania. At the sandy eyed hour of 10pm we finished talking about serious stuff and had time for a bit more music, some games and a good old chat.
On Sunday morning, we finalised the group contact and had a mega clean up of the center. In 45 minutes we managed to mop with 5 mops, brush with over 6 brushes and scrub with countless scrubbers until the place was cleaner than we found it. We then had the review session and I think everyone agreed that we all had an amazing weekend and got to know each other a little better than we already did!
TANZANIA HERE WE COME
Ashley
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