Day Five- The Mural, Connecting People

Tuesday October 18, 2016

Today, we spent the morning at the Les Cajoutiers school again where each group was involved in different activities.

The painting group, which included Dani, Mariana, Jenny, and I, finally finished the mural painting. We collaboratively worked together to finalize the painting in two days. In addition, one class of deaf children was also involved with the painting process as children hand painted parts of the flowers in the painting. Jenny, who took the leadership role in this activity, guided the members and organized the activity effectively so that we could finish the mural within two days. The challenge of the this activity was that we had to work outside the whole time in the overwhelming heat.

Ruby was involved in creating a story with children. Although she said that it was a little difficult to be in a class by herself and lead the creative activity, the children’s love and motivation to work made her job successful. The stories they created included essential aspects of a story, such as setting, characters, etc.

Alba was given the opportunity to work with deaf children where she made use of her sign language skills. Also, she constantly helped the painting group to precipitate the painting process and make us finish more quickly.

Sisi, Laura, and Lili also led classes with various activities. They introduced students of AISB grade 5 French class through letters and the children were asked to write back. The group also asked the children what peace means and got to know their opinions. Communicating effectively in French was a challenge that the group faced and overcame.

In the afternoon, we came back to Le Kenkeni and had the entire afternoon for ourselves as the plan of visiting a village in the bush was postponed to tomorrow. Many people had the chance to do their homework and work on school assignments. I, personally, finished my TOK essay. At around 6’o clock, we all came together and played card games of UNO and Spoon. And, most importantly, Madame Fabiny fixed the water problem again!