On Thursday morning, we headed into Kawate to CCLS-U. On the way, we stopped by the shop where the school desks and benches were being built. It was fun to see them; our VBS bought one classroom of desks. When we arrived we were greeted by over 120 students who had come to meet us. The school is on break, but there were many students and teachers on hand to greet us. We toured the school and the new building and then started doing some art projects with the classes. They were in their classrooms waiting patiently ... some for over an hour! ... before we got to their group. The young ones were given paper and crayons to make a creation. The older students made watercolors. We did not have enough paintbrushes for all the students so they waited patiently until one was free. It was so fun doing that with them; they were very creative! We had lunch on the bus (the bus stayed with us and the driver watched over our belongings) and then did some songs with the kids and walked around. They had porridge for lunch and a few kids added their crayons to the mix! The teacher caught it in time and dumped out the orange crayon mixture and got them some new porridge. We were able to see the new land that the school is in process of buying.
After lunch we did a puppet play on David and Goliath. It was great fun! We had translators for each of the six characters in the drama. The students had a good time watching us and laughing. We left at 4p.m. to head back to our hotel. We stopped on the side of the road for Violet (our Ugandan partner at the school) to buy some white yams to use for lunch tomorrow. We got back to our hotel, cleaned up and had dinner. We had to move inside because of the storm rolling in (it is rainy season here). Tomorrow will be another great day!
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