6/16/10

What fun today. The students played the staff in a soccer match and happily won by 7 to 2. What a celebration ensured. Dancing around the field holding the trophy aloft. Today wasalso safi or cleaning day at Amani. It happens once a month. No school and students and staff alike don their dirtiest clothes and go for it. However cleaning at Amani doesn't really resemble anything that we are used to. The whole building is concrete so after sweeping, buckets of soapy water are sloshed around and everything including walls are scrubbed with the water being squeegied outside. You should see these kids work, even carrying full buckets of water on their heads at the age of 8 or 9 or 10. Tanzanians definitely do a better job of teaching a work ethic than we do in the west. I might have said before that they start them young. The other day I watched a woman come out of the fields with a big bunckh of corn stalks on her head followed by a toddler barely able to walk with his own pile. Anyway if cleaning was sloshing water around, slipping and sliding across concrete floors our kids might be more enthusiastic.