Kick Ball

If anyone out there is a PE teacher applaud yourself and if you know a PE teacher hug them the next time you see them. As a Special Education Teacher, I have the mind set that PE is an easy job. NOT THE CASE AT ALL!!!!

Jerram and I set out to teach the kids how to play Kick Ball. Well we had about 45 kids and for a game that really only needs 18 to 20 kids split into 2 teams. Some how we managed to get them all to a spot. As we tried to convey the rules and the idea of the game, Mbuvi saw not only our struggle but the kids as well, so he translated everything in Swahili. Which helped. We had a slow start to the game-most of the kids in the outfield were doing head stands and some of the kids were juggling rocks. At this point we could tell the kids were not interested. But we were persistent and once they saw how far they could kick the ball and that they could run around the bases to score points their interest peaked. After both teams took the field and kicked twice we were on a roll the kids loved it.

We played for an hour and a half and one team scored 10(which is the number we used to name the winner), and as we walked back to the boys dorms the kids wanted to know when we would play again. We are scheduled to play again on Sunday.

We played Frisbee the rest of the evening until the sun went down-it was a really fun afternoon with the kids. Playing, laughing and building relationships.