Speech Days!

Hello! So I realise I have not updated the blog in the past month but we have been crazy busy and haven't had much time to update you all!  We are now on Christmas break for a couple of weeks so I will post a few updates of what we have been up to over the past month or so! 
   On the last two weekends of November we attended the 'Speech days' at the  two schools we have taught at.  Speech days are an end of year show, where the kids sing, dance and act for their parents.  There is often someone who gives a short speech or talk.  The speech day is also an opportunity to celebrate the children 'graduating' from Top class in nursery into Primary 1.

Center of Hope Junior School
   On Saturday the 23rd of November we returned to the school in the village Kalanamu. We were greeted by a very excited bunch of children happy to see us once again!  It was nice to be back and see all the kids and teachers again! Almost felt like we hadn't been away!
Each of the classes performed a couple of songs and dances.  Then the guest of honour... Not entirely sure who he was.. gave a speech.  It was a long day, but it was good to see the kids and listen to them sing.  Here are a couple of pictures and videos to let you get an idea of what it was like!

Ruth Mother Care
On the 30th of November we were at the speech day at Ruth Mother Care.  We were told it would start at 9am, though we knew this would be highly unlikely...  We decided to go along for 9:30am expecting it to start at about 10ish or so..  However.... When we arrived, we were as expected the first people to arrive... Though just as we got in side it started to rain!  And boy did it rain..!  So for the next 4 hours until 1pm! We were sat inside waiting for the rain to stop!  (it is a legitamate excuse not to go anywhere when it rains here....) Thankfully we were given lunch and didn't get wet! But it wasn't exactly the most exciting way to spend a Saturday morning..! So at 2pm when the parents finally arrived the show got started!  It was nice to see the kids singing and things, even though we'd already seen them practice!  We also got up and gave a short introduction to the parents as we will be teaching the kids again when we start after the holidays. Here are some pics to let you see what happened here!

I will update about what else we have been up to every soon! 
Hope you are all well..

Kenneth :)


P.S  Sorry Barry if this was too long for you.. I know you struggle with reading ;)  I put in lots of pictures for your benefit....