On Saturday I woke up late at around 9:15, SoEx starts at 9... So I quickly get ready thinking I will go down to the green house to see if the green team is there and if not my plan was to go back to sleep. I walk to the gate and there is a group of students waiting for a bus to go to the RC School, I decided to join them since I had never been. This turned out to be one of the best decisions I've ever made [if only I had remembered my camera :(...]. Regardless, I had such an amazing time. When we got there we were enthusiastically greeted by a swarm of boys. I immediately dropped the soccer ball and followed them to the field. We tried to make teams but we just ended up kicking the ball anywhere and to anyone; it was absolute chaos. After about ten minutes we rounded them up and started playing games that helped them learn English. We passed the ball around and asked a question which they needed to answer in the correct form of English. They already had some good English skills, so it was more working on sentence structure and grammar through conversation. I feel this way of teaching helps them practically apply their skills instead of just memorizing it and writing it on paper. We also kicked the ball around saying different fruits/vegetables/animals/places as we passed it around. They were getting really into it and every time we wanted to change the game they didn't want to. Eventually the older boys came to the school and kind of took over the field forcing us up near the chapel. We played games like monkey in the middle and cricket. One boy kept asking me for my watch, so I decided to draw a watch on him. I ended up drawing watches on several boys; they were all so eager to have purple watches drawn on them with my name underneath.
Then out of nowhere Bryan Plymale and his wife Isabella showed up with two of her spanish students to sing songs on the guitar. As soon as the kids saw the guitar they dropped everything and ran towards Matthew and Valentino, following them into the main classroom. Even though they did not understand the words they were genuinely enjoying the music, they were clapping and dancing. They started singing a song that they wrote in english and got the kids to sing the chorus which was just no no no no no, over and over again. They made a dance to it and even when we were about to leave they were still singing it! It was obvious they didn't want us to leave because they were hanging off the car and they held on even as we started to move. We eventually got them off and headed back for Kodai, laughing and singing on the way back. This was definitely a very memorable experience. Now all I have to do is track down people who took a few photographs so I can share them.
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