This week was packed with camps. On Sunday we had a soccer camp for the boys of summer set soccer academy. The main event? A game of Mzungus vs the academy. They killed us, but that's a given. We had people tripping over each other, others screaming when the ball came towards them and we even kicked the ball the wrong direction. We were one hot mess.
After the camp we taught classes on leadership. I was teaching a lesson on prioritization and started it out with a demonstration filling a bottle with rocks and sand and related it to getting important things done first. Afterwards I asked them what they thought we would be learning about and almost every time they said, "the weathering of sand and rocks!" Ha Ugandans are all about thinking outside the box.
Tuesday we held a dental camp at an elementary school. We examined over 300 students and extracted 50 or more infected teeth. Don't worry we had a dentist and anesthesia. We gave each of the kids free toothbrushes that had teeth removed too so that they wouldn't hate us too much the next time we came back. We taught about dental hygiene and entertained all 300 kids during the camp. We had to change a lot of our games though to things like goat goat pig instead of duck duck goose.
Wednesday was the big day. The women's health training I have been planning for over a month. It went better then I could have imagined. The women were so eager to learn and listened attentively for all 4 hours we taught and asked some great questions. We made family planning bracelets that were a huge hit. The women loved them. The highlight of my day though was holding a 3 year old on my lap that would mimic every word I said. I'm sneaking her home next time we are at the village.
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