NAME: Jennie Elliott
(Jennie is on her third placement with Travellers and plans to do a fourth!) AGE: 22 PLACEMENT:
Teaching & Summer Camp COUNTRY: Ghana
At the start of her
placement: Hi
Stephanie, I hope you and everyone else at travellers are ok and enjoying
the summer! I just thought I'd drop you an email to let you know how the
summer school's going.... So far everything has been great!
The kids seem to love it and although it's definitely challenging at time.
I'm really enjoying myself too. The kids are adorable and are so excited
when we walk into school in the morning! We've split the 60 kids into 3
classes so that Mark, Seh and I have one group each but we also rotate so
that each of us teaches all 3 groups every day. We have to be quite patient
with the children as they are very excitable but they also seem (mostly)
very keen to learn which makes it a very rewarding experience for us. I can
already see that I'm going to find it so hard to say goodbye to the kids
after 4 weeks - I'm getting so attached to them and it's only been a few
days!!
Hopefully the kids will keep enjoying themselves and keep showing up! I'm
really looking forward to getting to know them all better over the next few
weeks, and I'll let you know how it goes.
Halfway
through the Summer camp:
I am having an amazing time. Aloy (Aloysius is Travellers
Ghanaian Manager) and the principal, Mr Banini, have really supported us and
helped with anything they can. We are all building up a really good
relationship with the kids so even though it's hard, the teaching is also
really good fun. This morning as I walked down the last stretch of road to
school a group of children from the summer camp saw me and ran towards me
shouting my name at the tops of their voices. They all grabbed me and gave
me a huge hug in the middle of the street - it was a great feeling and put a
smile on my face for hours!!
In the afternoons after dinner there is a teacher that comes to teach
traditional African dance and music to the children so that we can put on a
performance at the end of the camp. The children love it and they are
amazing dancers! Seh and I have been learning to play the African drums and
hopefully if we get good enough we will be able to take part in the show!
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