Metsibotlhoko Primary School is now going to Camp GLOW!!!! YAY!!!! We got accepted. 25 delegations and 14 spots and my school was choosen for one of the spots!!!! I get to take 4 girls from my school to a camp in Gabs in early December to teach them how to be peer educators. Its seems like a really cool camp filled with all things that kids should get to do like camp fires, talent shows, etc.. but then durning the day we do a bunch of activities teaching the kids all about relationships, HIV/AIDS, love, sex, etc... I'm so excited that my kids were choosen. We all had to write papers and apply! I know that at least 2 of the 4 girls that are coming have never even left Metsibotlhoko before...so this is huge! I'm working on bringing as much exposure of the world and possibilities as I can to these kids so they can really see what they can become. I'm going to Maun (way up north in Bots) from November 4-9th for a facilitators training for the camp with my school head.
Also, this coming week on the 9th we are having our first Guidance and Counselling Seminar / Standard 7 Graduation for the kids. I'm here in Gabs today trying to find spray paint and ribbon to try to make some ghetto fabulous/cheap award like things for the little graduates. I've been cutting up coke cans and using the bottoms as litle medals and are going to try to add ribbon or something to make it a little more fancy. I don't know...I'm trying. They might look horrible, but I'm going to attempt to praise these children even if it kills me. haha I'm also going to make a cake with my school head for the kids to celebrate their graduating. I have to find a way to make a cake from scratch that I can actually make taste like a cake...but I'm working on it. I have no doubt I can make it taste like cake...but look like a cake...whole different story! BUT no matter what a celebration will happen. Balloons and all...
I'm hoping the whole thing will go off well and people will actually show up! thats the hope! Fingers crossed!! OH and I think my school i gonna start an Art Club soon to let the kids have fun and maybe find a way to sell what they make, like beads and stuff to fund raise for the school.
OH! and I'm writing an article for the districts DMSAC (DAC District AIDS Coordinator) Newsletter to get my village some exposure and let the district konw all the things my village is doing!
...ok, I think thats it for now!...seriously, fingers crossed for friday though!!! :)
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Yay! Celebration time will never be so sweet! Congratulations to all the students...and to you for your perseverance in making this opportunity a reality! And I know that the graduates will have a day to remember always...made sweeter by your cake and by your spirit and inspiration. Sending you all the best!
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Carol
Hi baby, Can never remember how to leave a comment. You need to come home and teach me! You are such a busy bee! With your strong heart full of love and your brain sleuthing out solutions to amazingly complex dilemmas you must be spent, but fulfilled, my darling one. Court, D & G, Vestie and I love you deeply and dearly. Oogie, too. NB: No snakes, no lions. See you in a bit. Can't wait to shower in a bucket and live on peanut butter and crackers. Yum :)xoxoxo
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