{"id":61,"date":"2020-02-19T06:52:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda20\/?p=61"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:04:22","slug":"snoring-anything-but-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda20\/2020\/02\/19\/snoring-anything-but-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"SNORING, ANYTHING BUT BORING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monday morning saw us begin our first full day of CWB activity, following the gentle warm up yesterday of taking ten teachers through a coach education session and running a small coaching session at the Tea Factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hotel may be basic but the view from the restaurant window at breakfast is quite stunning, as we overlook Lake Kivu and the hills of the Congo roll away in the distance. Certainly not the photo that we want to be sending back home to those that we have been fairly short with over the last few months when they refer to the trip as a holiday and point out that we are actually here to work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After breakfast, when the conversation mostly centred around how everybody had slept and a discussion on the various volume levels of snoring amongst the group (this varied from zero to a level that was described by the roommate as \u2018imagine the noise coming from the worst karaoke singer you have ever heard\u2019) we tried to plan our first session of the day, but as there were differing views as to the number of children expected we were all reminded of the message at the training weekend \u2013 \u2018Expect the Unexpected\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so it was off to Agyousa Primary School,  a lovely little school near the lake \u2013 and\nthe excitement of the children as our bus pulled up was an eye opener \u2013\ncertainly for those of us on our first trip. We had a fleeting glimpse of what\ncelebrities go through every day of their life, as we were greeted by an\nexcited crowd of faces \u2013 energised by the rare sight of some strange people but\nmostly by the prospect of not having to be in a classroom for the foreseeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018So how many kids today ?\u2019  \nwe naively asked the teacher. \n\u2018About 2,000\u2019 came the reply, and upon their perception of our obviously\nworried expression the staff reassured us that they would not be all in one\nsession, there would only be about 1,000 in each. To put this in context the\nspace we had was about 100m by 60m of rocky, partly-grassed, partly-dusted of\nplaying surface.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were children everyway we turned and one of the first impressions was how smart they were in their uniform, boys and girls in different coloured clothing and pre P1 (under fives) in a very striking blue and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re helping introduce cricket to an area of Rwanda that hasn\u2019t played before in our first week. The kids are so enthusiastic (not to mention the teachers) that they all want to play and we had over 900 instead of the planned 200 at our first session. Before we got going there was various dancing and drumming to welcome us \ud83d\udc83\ud83d\ude01.<\/a><\/p>

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