Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Myths and Manual Labor

Today at break when I made my daily offering of banana, Kavari did not take any and said that if you eat too many bananas, the mosquitoes will be attracted to you during the rainy season. Last week Patricia, one of the other teachers that I live with, told me that I was going to get malaria from wearing open toed shoes in the cold.

After school today, all of the learners that were late (well, technically not all – by all I mean all of the learners that arrived after someone on the staff decided that they were late) were cleaning up the school yard by using a hoe to dig up the grass and weeds from the sand and then carting it off of school grounds with a wheel barrow. There were probably about 30 learners working to clear the yard.

Yard clean up continued all week and by Friday the area leading from the school gate to the administration building and from the administration building to the teachers’ house is clear.

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