Week 7

It's been long time we've taking a session, and it's the first time this week, that we've conducted a session.
But, it does feel good teaching again. Even though, I was still giving the teachers some guidance.

The roads heading to the schools and lodge are been repaired.  And we're driving in a arkward angle. Driving on a right angle is never comfortable, nor it doesn't help when there is bumps on the road.

What a surprise, surprise, NOT!  While I'm driving on the road, the road police stop me because I'm a foreigner, plus they wanted to find a faults on the car,so they can give us a fine. Bentry came to the rescue, by making a few phone calls. To me, I wasn't pleased because they obviously knew who we were. They just wanted to take advantage out of that nature. Plus, I was told they haven't received their monthly payment yet. (Now that makes sense.)

In the last couple weeks, I was baffled by some of the teachers, addressing the students by calling them 'learners' instead of students. Usual, you'll call a learner in london as a new person learning to drive. Yeah, in some ways they are learners, but their more than learners/students. They are the future of their country, I know I'm going off topic.  So, I suppose it's right to call them 'learners', because their picking up valuable knowledge to move on, to do better things. But, on the other hand, it's a culture thing were they want have unique moto for students. There was great quote from a school, 'knowledge is wealth'. I only realised that over time in life in school.

Each school we've been to. All staff wanted to show their staff room for us.Some are really small, size of university room were you would have to walk sideways and shuffle across the room.     
I know most teachers don't want to be in rooms that are small. So, they decide to teach outside or bigger room.
On top that the teachers that impress me are the teachers who can adapt their sessions and facilities they are given to them. Their the ones that makes things out of nothing. Their the ones that make school awesome.  Their the ones that believe in you and others didn't. Thanks to all you teachers out there who made a difference.  It makes me think, when I see my teachers that help me out in things I couldn't do and they still believe in me.

During this week the lodge was busy, with guest who were very pleasant to talk to. Plus, they are absolutely nice family. Got along with them. The highlight for this family was the traditional dance done by the member staffs. Which was brilliant, I hope they do something like that for us when we leave. I'm sure there was other things that the family loved about the wildernesses. But, for me you can tell I enjoyed the performance. On top of that, I took part in the dance without my own will. I should have not sat in the front of the stage. It was shame that my phone battery died.

Bentry took us to a place that we are going to camp in the next few weeks. It wasn't far from the lodge and were we live at the staff camp. One of the scouts told us anecdote what he has experience with animals. Advise that he gave us do not be friendly with animals because they would attack nor matter what size, big or small. As who I am, I was curious what animal wouldn't harm us. So, I ask him would a butterfly attack us? Everyone there laughed, because I trying find animal that wouldn't attack humans.

Patrick the scout lodge, also added some trees in the wilderness can be made to become a rope. I was amazed, how he took a branch from the tree and started peeling the branch and there was long strip of the branch, long enough to make a rope. He asked me to pull the semi type rope apart.  I couldn't break the rope tree, it was slipper, really strong and deceiving strength. The tree is called  'Musasa' or 'Brachystegia spiciformis'.