Discovering Malawi.
Parents Open Day!
We errected the replica school on the village green for maximum impact!
I presented a photograhic diary of the project (not unlike whats in this blog) to the parents showing every stage of the project, power point you know. And I kept thinking of Jack Black in ‘School of Rock’ where he makes a garbled speach to the horified parents of the children he has been teaching.
‘I have touched your kids’ and ‘they have touched me’. But I managed not to say that which was a releif.
Then we went outside in the pissing rain to view the building. It was as if the rain was not there everyone was out there in the mud, talking and queing up to get in. One mother came up to me and said, ‘my son has bought home a piece of wood from this project everyweek and has been in the shed with hammer and nails’. Another said, ‘my daughter comes home and talks about this project’. Thats all you need to hear and my tail was wagging.
A truly great day, but where was the caretaker whose door I fixed when I needed a hand to take it all down by myself in the pouring rain?
AWOL.
Lots of photos for this project on my photobucket site http://s213.photobucket.com/albums
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