I forgot to mention one other fabulous essence of the conference - John Magee (from Group 2, nicknamed Big John as he is 6'11") and I facilitated a basketball workshop for girls that Saturday morning. John has been a woman's high school basketball coach for some years now in the States, and the entire morning was dedicated to student empowerment. There were workshops for drama, art, hip hop, and basketball. We had so much fun with the girls, just teaching them passing fundamentals, teamwork and some dribbling skills - note that we had one basketball, 10 girls, and no actual court, rather a brick drive-area to work with them. With teaching the practical skills we talked about empowerment for females and the ability to work for and achieve the goals that they have. During the conference time we had to "present" what we had worked on during our 2.5 hours in the African heat (I think I finally got a sunburn during this time). We put the girls into a star-passing drill and as they performed the drill, John and I passed another ball around while discussing student empowerment through sport, especially for the ladies. It went really well, and the girls were so excited to learn some b-ball skills, even considering our limited resources. Don't worry, I did get pictures! I am back to teaching today and tomorrow - yesterday the testing continued, so Angeline and I did not teach. The next three days are going to prove to be hectic - I have to finish our teaching handbook, type and organize our 3 sections of the research project, and say farewell to Keyo and Gulu. Friday, Keyo is throwing us a 'goodbye' ceremony at the displaced site to officially send us off. Angeline and I are planning on spending the morning together making chipati and setting up an email account for her at the local cafe'. So those are the logistics... apparently the drive to Jinja for rafting is a 7 HOUR road trip - dear Lord, please help us:) More soon.
Shalom
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