Exploring and teaching

Well, hello everyone that reads my posts about Uganda.

This post will be about some exploration that I've done and about my first mini-lesson that I just taught.

So, let's start with last weekend.  There is an Israeli girl that is staying at the same place where I am staying.  She's a bit adventurous and convinced me to take a bodaboda (motorcycle taxi) out to Ggaba and check out a local market.  With little hesitation, I said yes and grabbed a helmet and we were off.  Luckily, haggling is like her full time job so I let her do most of the talking.  She had me try a rolex which is flatbread, egg, tomatoes, and onion all cooked and fried up together.  They are really delicious but they should only be a once a week snack.

Here is the guy that we got our rolex from...

  I have never seen food prepared so openly on the street.  It was quite an experience.

Then we looked around Lake Victoria and the local market for second hand clothes.

Here is Lake Victoria

The local people fish out of the lake and then sell what they catch to the highest bidder

The whole market was really interesting and I enjoyed getting to witness something very different from what I have at home.

Today, I taught a mini-lesson using BrainPop which can be quite inconvenient when the internet goes down (which is often in Uganda).  Overall the lesson covered the human organ systems and both of my collaborating teachers thought that I did very well.  I'm glad that I have taught a mini-lesson and gotten my feet wet with teaching so now the kids will learn that I am also a teacher in the room.

Well, gotta go teach 7th period!