Saturday 20th is the first week of our long project with the wobolenzi town academy. Our group consisted of four people and once we arrived on site, we divided ourselves into two groups of twos to increase the efficiency. We alternated the work. While one group was doing the alphabet, another would do the numbers. Our goal for the first week was to break the ice and get comfortable with the groups of students because we would have the same students during these four weeks. Our equipment included notebooks, card boards, French work books for the beginner. Today, we taught the students the alphabet and counting from one up to twenty. The students were quit shy at the beginning but after breaking the ice, most of them were quite eager to raise their hands after some time. We worked from 10a.m to 1p.m. During that time, the students were given tests to show how much they understood during each lesson.
Something we could have done better, was to make an action plan before the lessons started, it could have made the lessons run more smoothly. After lunch we played a game of basketball with the students at Wobolenzi Town Academy. I was pretty satisfied with the progress the students made this Saturday. We left them words and sentences to remember for next week's lesson. For today, I can say that everything went as expected. The main outcome today was engaging in issues of global importance because all the students come from different places in uganda, some where there is still war, so we have to avoid some jokes and be as most politically correct as possible by avoiding controversial issues.
We officially left Wobolenzi at 3p.m.
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