Last Friday, we
went to Arusha School, a primary school where the Duke students, Katie, and I
conduct after school programs (more on these programs later in another
post). Arusha School was having their
Sports Day, where alumni, parents, teachers, and students all came together to
participate in sports. They had events
such as marble races, filling a water bottle from a bucket race, 100 m, 200 m,
400 m, tug of war, relay races, etc. Between
all of us, we know about 120 students at the school, so we were excited to see
them compete.
The students
were split up into 4 houses, Nyerere, Kenyatta, Samora, and Mandela, and each
house competed against each other. The
houses were named after Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, Samora
Machel, the first unlelected president of Mozambique, Jomo Kenyatta, the first
president of Kenya, and Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected
president of South Africa.
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| The 11-12 year old boys 100 m race is off to a quick start! |
After all of
the student competitions, the teachers, alumni, and parents faced off in the
100 m race and tug of war. Even all of
us wazungu (foreigners) teachers got to compete against the Arusha school staff
in a game of tug of war. What a fun
afternoon!
At the end they
had a “chicken race,” where the teachers had to run after a chicken and the
first person to catch the chicken got to take it home to eat. I felt a little bad for the chickens, but the
teachers were very motivated to catch the chicken, so it made for a funny
event.
At the end of
the Sports Day, the headmistress and second master announced the winning houses
in each event. The house leaders went up
to the stage to collect their trophy or plaque.
Even though Samora took home the overall prize, all of the students were
so proud of their teams. It was so great
to see so much celebration!!
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| Samora house celebrates their Sports Day win |
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