My Gap Year

Seeing as there have been so many holidays and days off school due to strikes, I decided to spend an extra week at the school. The last week was definetly the best!! My football skills were tested during break times, but atleast i could save a few goals!

 I finally tought the children that “Please” is a very important word!! Seeing as there is no Nepali equivalent it is a very difficult concept to understand!!

I have also sat in some older classes with another English volunteer who is actually a teacher! I was relived I was not expected to do this on my own, as I dont think I would have been able to control a class of 40 10-11 year olds!! The kids were really interested to learn about England, but sometimes they have too many questions are are constantly shouting “Sophie Miss, Sophie Miss!!” Very sweet but it makes it hard work!

On another day when we were stranded in our village due to strikes, we walked accross to the school to play volleyball and basket ball with the kids! Moo and thought we would be able to keep up with them..afterall we both did volleyball in year nine as an activity! We were very wrong! These kids clearly dont do anything else in their free time, they were all extreamly talented at both volleyball and basket ball and could even hit the ball further and shoot from further away than one of the other vounteers who is well over 6 foot!! It is deffinetly safe to say we lost the East vs West game!

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