First Day of School

Lindsay Teague **Sorry this is a few day's old but today was our first day with internet!!

Today was our first day in the schools! All of us went and visited all three schools. The schools are only about a fifteen-twenty minute drive from Annie’s Lodge so it is nice we won’t have to travel very far! The first school was the Malemia primary school and all of these children live in the surrounding village. We watched them eat lunch, and I found it emotional to watch them eat their “porridge”. If the child did not have a cup to put it in, then they simply just didn’t get to eat. The most touching part of this was that the children who did have a cup would share with their friends who didn’t. I find this amazing and puts their poverty, but genuine caring nature into perspective.

We then went to the Domasi Government School (VT’s) and lastly the Domasi Demonstration School. Each of the schools had between 50-100 students in each classroom. The children at all three are absolutely adorable and were so excited to see us that they would just surround our bus! So far this has been a truly wonderful experience and I know we all can’t wait to start teaching them! Tomorrow we go to our classrooms and shadow the teacher’s whose classrooms we will be working in. I can’t wait to see what a full-day of school is like for them! We will all be beginning to plan our lessons this weekend!

After we visited the schools we went to the market to get water for the next couple of days. It was fun to see Zomba during the daylight today because we arrived last night in the dark and the market is a little more centrally located in town. It will be fun to explore our new home for the next month over this weekend because we will be exploring the market’s more on Saturday.