Bye Bye Athinai

I can't believe we have been teaching for 5 weeks now! This was a historic moment for QHO and YESS as this is the first project to have taught for more than 4 weeks. This week was our second week of teaching at Athinai Secondary School. Last week we taught the form 3’s and 4’s (grade 11 and 12) and this week we taught the form 1’s and 2’s (grade 9 and 10).

Athinai was a great school to teach at, the students were all very enthusiastic and were always willing to participate. Because this was our second week in a row teaching at Athinai, I would always run into the form 4 students that I had taught last week. They all remembered my name and they always said hi whenever they saw me, it was really cool to see that they carried the same enthusiasm with them even when we weren’t teaching them.

The team is functioning very well, everyone has become really good friends and there has been no conflict, which is quite remarkable seeing as we have been living together for 6 weeks now. It is hard to imagine that in two weeks time we will be cleaning up our house and separating to go our own ways.

We have also begun planning our Outreach Week, which will be taking place in the last week of June. During this week we plan to do an activity at every school that we have taught at. It will be a great opportunity to see the students again and will provide the students with opportunities to help out around the community. Some of the activities that we are planning are a community clean-up and tree planting around the schools. We will be wrapping Outreach Week up with a big sports day, where we will also have a VCT set-up. The goal will be to get students out and get them tested. I, along with everyone else is very excited for Outreach Week and we have big hopes for our testing day.

Until next week,

David