Wow. It's now Monday 5th and there has been so much to take in. Our 6th year pupils are great and are willing to do anything at all to help around the Luwero community. This morning we had a tour of both the primary and the secondary schools. There are three nursery classes followed by seven primary classes. They teach in a mixture of Lugandan and English and I was very impressed at how their English progresses quickly as they move up through the school. The pupils all gave us a big welcome and Gabriel taught me to say "Abaana, mole motwa" which means "hello children." I was introduced to the classes as "teacher Susan" and when I told them that I teach English and French they all said "oooh!" - I don't know which one they found most interesting. The children were just gorgeous, too sweet for words, smiling and giving us high fives.
Then we visited some classes in the secondary school. Again the pupils were very friendly and wanted to know our names. By this time it was absolutely sweltering, I took one of our pupils outside because she needed to be sick. They have very limited electricity here and of course there is no air conditioning in the classrooms - instead they leave the windows open to catch the slight, pleasant breeze -but when that breeze drops it gets very hot, very quickly!
This did not prevent us from joining in a lively and very hot game of football in the field later. I couldn't play because of my broken ankle but I talked to loads of little children and got some good photos.
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