Meeting our First Day of Placement
Monday - Today is a public holiday, so the school was not in session. It was a public holiday as a festival was being held. Ronny Explained to us that there are so many festivals held, that you would need 2 years to accommodate each festival. Ronny is from Belgium, and will be staying with us, helping coordinate our projects for the first month. The other person who Debbie and I will be heavily working with is Mani, pronounced very similar to money, which is how she told us to remember haha. We had a meeting today with all the staff members, where we were formally introduced to all of them as well as them being introduced to us. We also discussed our future roles, which will be including engaging in a mutual learning/teaching experience with the SEDS school and school teachers. Debbie will most likely be in particular working with the woman's empowerment group, including, but not limited to, textile factory and bio-gas. I will hopefully be primarily engaging with both some of