This morning, we were broken up into two groups and started the Community Projects. Mili's group started constructing bathrooms for the school that were closer than the bathrooms that they have been using so that there was less danger caused by wildlife to the kids. Maggie's group started structuring the 3D Maze for the school which will give them another thing to play with rather than the small playground with limited equipment. During the project, there was a lot of tension and frustration going into it because of the heat, bugs, homesickness, and the fact that we had to do manual labor for the first time in months (mostly because we had to do it in the heat and there is no cold water here that we can drink). After all of the "storming", the group came together and we were working as a team with proficiency.
After lunch, we visited the school and broke up into groups with different classes. Each of our classes did a craft activity and a gardening segment; at the end of our time with them, the majority of us went to a dance class taught by four local girls in which we learned two different dances, while three of us went to play cricket. During the craft activity, Mili's and Maggie's class made origami frogs that jumped. Unfortunately, our frogs got snagged. During gardening, our class looked at a turtle pond in which there were three different types of turtles: pond terrapin, Indian soft shell turtle, and a small terrapin turtle. We got to hold them all and it was a highlight of many people's days. Our class brought buckets of water to the turtle pond to fill it up more for them and the little girls put flowers in our girls hair and gave small flowers to our boys. At the end of our stay in Timbaktu, we are performing the dances that the girls taught us and we will also be performing them during an assembly at Ensworth.
Mili and Maggie
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