Runda Feeding Program

For the last three months I have been on the Runda Feeding Program with Interact. What we do is we meet by the Java House near the U.N. and from there we go together to Rottery's old age home somewhere in Runda. We give the old men and woman plates of food and we stack of bread and other kinds of food for the children in this little house/veranda. Then lots of little children come for food, they all get a plastic bag and they walk in a line to the different stations where we all stand give out different kinds of food. Its really sad, and sometimes you'll boys and girls carrying dolls or teddybears wrapped in blankets on their back, to make it look like they have a little baby who also needs food.
Runda Feeding Program has really showed me the true nature of people, or one of the natures ;) Me and my friends are always so suprised how ungrateful the children are after they've gotten food, no one ever says thank you, everyone always wants more, and when all the food is handed out and finished total chaos breaks out at the old age home. Guards have to scare the children away with sticks and things get really scary, people are screaming and running towards us in search for food. Me and my friends always thought that when you're doing charity you'll feel good about yourself, that the people that you're helping will be grateful, but what we see here is the complete opposite, we often leave feeling sad and spoiled. Even though we feel this way we come back though. But when I think about it I realize that it's fully understandable that they want more, they're just hungry...but a thank you now and then wouldn't hurt.
I wish I knew how this blogger thing works so I could put some pictures up but  I am kind of computer retarded so....

Girls JV Football

So its all kind of a weird story. So first I'm thinking that I wont try out for football, but for some reason, I make the girls varsity team and its all good. Except that I feel that I really really really really suck, oh god it was so terrible. I dont know what the others thought, and I had no idea why I was on the team, so I just stopped going to varsity kind of, and went to JV instead. It was really fun in JV and Coach Sags is soooo supporting and great that everyone had a great time. In our season we lost every game, except one, which we won. I think we made a total number of 2 goals during the season, one of which was a penalty kick haha. We had a great time and we learned a lot and I think Coach Sags was proud of us even though we totally failed.
We had practice 3 times a week.

Masaai Mara IC Trip

For my IC trip I went to Masaai Mara. We lived in a camp next to a local school, where we started building two schools as part of the project. We never finished completely but we laid a good foundation and the rest of the building probably we wouldn't take long. We also took part in a Masai beading workshop, it was really hard but we learned a lot and we were super duper CREATIVE. Another day we also visited the local market, a girls high school, and a clinic. It was really interesting to to see and I think we all thought it was really fun. If the Masai Mara trip is an option for next year I would definitely recommend it because it includes everything in CAS and it was super fun and all the facilitators took care of us really well....the food was really nice, the tents were nice (even though it was freezing at night) and it was overall an awesome week, we had so much fuuuun! And also I think we deserve extra credit, or at least I do becaue we barley got to shower...and showering is really important I think, we all smelled kind of bad, it was ok though becaue everyone who was on the trip totally bonded and I became close friends with people I normally wouldn't talk to. It was also fun since there were facilitators who made us play games ALL THE TIME, games that were meant to be great fun but most of us thought were kind of like humanities joke...if that makes any sense. Yeah anyway. super fun trip:)