catching up!

Day 29 (10/3)
Today was another mainly class day, its so nice to know that we only have a few more weeks of class and then the research part starts. AND tomorrow is another Amboseli Day. Monday we are getting ready to go on a camping trip and then Tuesday we leave for 4 days.
Other than that, there isn't too much going on, but people are all feeling much better so thats good.

Day 28 (10/2)
This morning, breakfast was at 7:30 and at 9 the local Mamas are came to do beadwork with us. As in show us how to make bracelets. I failed miserably. It took me 2 hours to make one bracelet; in the meanwhile, the Mamas made about 3, and helped us all start them. But some people took even longer so I didn’t feel like a complete failure.

After lunch we went to a local primary school to play soccer and volleyball. As in grade 4 to 7, in soccer they beat us 5 to 1. They were all just so fast, and ran so much that no one could keep up. But to be fair they’ve played every day for years together and we’ve only been playing together for a few weeks. It was still pretty absurd. After the game the kids wanted us to show them tricks. Basically that’s them telling us to “dance, monkey, dance!” and never mind that everything we did, they could do 10 times better. Example, someone did a hand stand; one of the 7th graders did a handstand then walked around on his hands…for a while.

Today I was MOD, which is basically just an assistant to the professors (but it was a non-program day so we didn’t have class) and then after dinner I was responsible for RAP. For the “P”(presentation) part, I played a game called “Bob the weasel” where everyone stands in a circle, and one person in the middle. You pass a small object behind your backs from person to person and chant “bob the weasel, keep it going, keep it going” and you try to pass the object/ trick the person in the middle. And the goal of the person in the middle is to correctly guess who has the object, then if they guess correctly the person who had the object goes in the middle. It was actually a lot of fun, and it’s a game for like 1st graders. Then after that I played Madagascar 2. Love that movie.

Day 27 (10/1)
Wow, I cannot believe it’s the first day of October. When I think of October I think of leaves changing and falling, pumpkins, brisk-cold morning air and Halloween decorations coming out. There is no hint of any of that happening here. It is getting hotter by the day and everyone is just hoping for rain.
We spent the majority of the day in class and just hung out for the rest of the time. We have a few papers within the next few days. So most people were working on them.