As our guests are keen to see some of the country we decided
to take a delivery to a school down the coast today. Nyofelleh, is about 25 miles away in the
rural area to the south, the Lower Basic School there we have twinned with St
Peter’s school in Wakefield and they donated many items of sports equipment on
the last container; most of which we had delivered last season. This morning we were taking the remainder of
the equipment from the storeroom and were anxious to see that they were using
the items donated. Most of the items we
delivered last time have been well used, particularly the footballs which are
universally loved here. Today we had
some rounders equipment and small stilts, used by holding string whilst moving
each foot. The head teacher and the
sports master were out today, but we managed to persuade the duty teacher to
bring out two teams for rounders. There
were two young teachers and the deputy head, who was probably about 50. He was the only one with any idea of how the
game should be played, so it was hard going trying to get a game
organised. The children had never played
before and some could not grasp the idea of getting the opposing team out by
touching either the player or the post.
One boy in particular kept throwing the ball back to second base instead
of on to 4th! We tried for
half an hour and eventually got some semblance of the game going. We had more luck with the stilt game. 4 teams one representing each house in the
school, red, blue, yellow and green were assembled to do a relay around markers
using the stilts. This proved to be a
great success, despite the children never having seen anything like the stilts
before. We had a great time, shouting and encouraging them up and down the
field. The younger teachers were really
enthusiastic and were going to introduce the game to the rest of the
school. We finally left after a trip
around the school, which has increased the roll this year by 100 as all tuition
fees are now free for school children.
They still have to buy uniform, shoes, books and pencils. We returned home and all had a swim in the
pool in the afternoon before going to meet Jean at Yashmine for dinner.
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