kickball a success!

WOW! quick post to share that 65 kids turned up this afternoon for kickball! I arrived before eric and the youth coaches and sat with many many eyes looking at me. After waiting a bit, i learned that the kids could speak a bit of english when one of the boys came to tell me the ball (a few of them were playing soccer) fell in the toilet. lol. i was confused, but soon found out that a big ditch behind the carport is a toilet. They fished it out and i told them to go wash it at the water pump on the property. they didnt and continued playing. I went through the ABCs with them, which are posted on the wall of the centre and then one of the coaches turned up. he helped me try to get them to do the sounds, but the whole phonics of letters is missing. will be a good thing to teach them, esp with so many little ones. once eric arrived, we talked about leaders and then played follow the leader. the liked it a lot. then eric lead another game, basically simon says ish, but they loved it. then we started kickball.
there were about 30 young kids so eric got them started playing a game they could play then we started kickball. i kinda went back and forth with the little ones and the kickball ones. really, without eric, it couldnt have gone nearly as smooth. a lot of the kids from last week came back so most of the boys knew how to play, which was good. by next week we should be able to just make two teams and play. I taught the young ones to play duck duck goose which they liked and also did the hokey pokey. was struggling to think of other simple games/songs. too many days since kindergarten!
i gave them all crayons as they left, giving the ones in preschool a whole box since its something they need for school and the rest 8 crayons. one boy complained he didnt like the colors and eric took them all back and told him if he wasnt happy with what he had he wouldnt have any. loved it. Also the p2 students pushed and shoved to line up and eric called them from the back first, teaching them to not push to be first. he is so good with them, small little lessons interjected here and there.
i anticipate more if not at least the 65 again next week. really hoping eric will keep coming, he seems keen, but i know he has other responsibilities. he starts uni in august in kampala, was telling me today about buying his books. he rode his bicycle out to the village so he could ride back with me. loved riding my bike out there, though 54 boxes of crayons was heavy heavy on my back.
all in all, very successful. i took some pictures but came seem to upload them on this laptop at home. will try to add some from the clinic computer or stop by the human rights focus where i still have some internet time.
happy weekend everyone!
one month until my ugandan birthday celebration!!