Today was the first day at Namitete school. It went almost perfectly. The day started really rainy, but by the time we had gotten to the school the sun had come out. We had a moment of breathing time on the bus (one of our coordinators is a yoga teacher…
First of all Jesse, one of the original founders of World Camp came to stay starting Monday night with his friend Josh. They started a company called MokuZoku which is an online game site for kids, where points earned online earn trees for us to give the kids to plant…
Today was quite an adventure! We were supposed to teach a three-day camp at Mnkhupa. We all piled in to the bus and headed down these back roads, but it had rained the night before and so we were sliding all over the road from the mud. After the…
Today was our day off before we start the next set of camps (Mnkhupa from Monday to Wednesday and Namitete from Thursday to Saturday). The group went hiking, but I stayed home with one of our coordinators, Catherine, to just hang out and recover. I went outside earlier to sit…
The last day of camp at Kamwama went really well. We taught the kids how to play ultimate frisbee, did a little HIV teaching, and then planted some trees around the school. The kids got to do their presentations, and I was SO proud of our group. They stood up…
We went back to Kamwama school for day two today. The main topic was “empowerment”, so the girls were split up from the boys. The goal of the discussion was to make the girls feel like they have a choice in whether they have sex with a boy…
Today was our first day at the Kamwama camp in Malawi. We’re split up in to teams of two for the teaching, but the beginning of the day is the best part. We drive up in a bus, and the kids come RUNNING at us from all different…
Back in Lilongwe, we had a chance to meet the translators for the camps. Since we’re in groups of two for the teaching, we’ll have one translator each. All the translators were under 25, one was 17! They were super nice, and ended up busting out…
Today was our return from Lake Malawi. The trip there was absolutely amazing. Since my luggage FINALLY came, I was able to pack up my things to take with me (phew!). The place we drove to was about two hours away in Salima, Malawi, and the bus we were on…
So we made it to Lilongwe, Malawi and was it a trip! The flight from Washington/Dulles to Johannesburg, South Africa was about 14 hours. Luckily, I checked out seatguru.com before I left and totally lucked out with my seat. I had a HUGE amount of legroom and I…