OK, I'm sorry I've been really bad at updating my blog. But i did warn you all this before I set off! :)

So, I've been teaching in a school for the last 2 weeks. Its a High School in Kibera for young people between the ages of 15 and 20 who have left education for one reason or another and hae wanted to get back into education. Its called Starays Hope and was set up by unemploted teachers who wanted to use their profession in a beneficial way whilst they were unemployed. The school currently has abotu 300 students, boys and girls, which is split into 3 grades, 2 classes in each grade. About 50 of the students board at the school for one reason or another, either they have nowhere to live or their homelife isnt really ideal to be doing after school studies in. They all live in the same room with just matrasses on the floor so its not ideal but its better than what most have at home, and they get fed there too.

So anyway I was absoloutly horifically terrified the sunday night before my first day at school! I am not a teacher! I have never claimed to want to be a teacher! So I was terrified!! I could hardly sleep! Brittney the girl i was on the placement with had found a really good canadian resource on the internet that gave lesson plans for the type of thing that we would be teaching the children, which would be reproductive health, which basically was a bit of everything - healthy relationships with friends, family and partners, sex ed, contraception, stis, domestic abuse. All those sorts of things. Life skills essentially. So we had a really good lesson plan thanks to Brittney but even that didnt calm my nerves! I still had to stand in front of a class of kids on my own and SPEAK! Ahhhhh!

Turns out Im not too bad of a teacher. I can do it at least. I had 3 classes a day, alternative reporductove health and PE! Yes PE! It consisted off a small area of muddy ground that just about fit us all in, and a ball. So we mainly stood in a circle and played ball passing games and they sang songs and played games that involved singing. I wasnt good at them.

I loved being in my school. I got to know some of the students well, some not so much, but it has been a really good experience. I wasnt sure if I had made any sort of difference at all, after all like I said, im no teacher. But on the last day when the school administrator asked 2 of the girls to stand up and say something about me and Brittney after we had gathered all the girls away from the boys on the last day to hand out sanitary pads that we had bought for them, one of the girls from my middle class (the class i thought was my problem class and didnt like me much) stood up and said some lovely things about me and it really made me so happy to have been able to have spent some time there! I got loads of pictures with the kids before I left. They all wanted picutures with me! It was so sweet!

So overall iv had a great week teaching. I had to miss one day because I was ill and i really missed them all that day!

I will try and get my pictures up as soon as i can! :)