The Last Day

27/08/09

Today was my lasy day with the kids and this morning was incredibly special.
We made musical instruments and offered painting and drawing till mid-morning. The irony was that the children involved the instrument making ended up being the messiest of the lot covering the bodies from head to toe with stickers!!!

The teachers sat us all down to thank us for our work and devotion to the project and we received certificates with marks for our teaching. We presented the school with the remaining gifts - the junk we didn't want in our suitcases! Then the party begun.
We had pass the parcel, musical bumps and statues. Awesome fun and the kids were brilliant at it all.
We fed them with fritters, although as usual there was not enough to go round.

Suddenly it was lunch and a case of mass photo taking of every single child before we left.
I realised how little time was left, and felt really emotional especially as Dereck appeared and started singing "Shut the Door". Saying goodbye then seemed so difficult.

Claire and I walked through Mapalo surrounded by our class and picking up more along the way, definitely the Pied Piper of Mapalo. Cries of "Masungu, how are you?!" I'm fine, how are you?!"
I'm sad, I shall never hear those words uttered again :(

The afternoon passed slowly, watching too many aggressive teachers beating small starving children. Giving out food is always an impossible task (I should highlight that Bread of Life were having a big party for all the schools). No wonder they often drop aid from the air!!!
The party would have been so much better on the field at St Pauls.

I had a lot of fun playing with the Bread of Life children and organising mass games of Duck, Goose. Also got to cuddle cute kids. First and Last days, woooo!

Suddenly the bus arrived and we were really saying goodbye. Of all my kids, my slightly blank girl, Virginia started crying first and all the others laughed at her. Royce and Jacklin started crying and I'm so touched to have made such an impact on their lives.