November 23rd, Thursday. Today is Thanksgiving back home and I miss the traditional food and celebrating with family but it was a good day. I taught the "youth" today topics on money management (details in wise spending, saving, and giving, business/income issues) and on cross cultural training. The "youth" were ages 15 to 40's. Not exactly all youth in my mind!
For the first half I took the older "youth" (adults) and taught on money while Joshua took the younger youth an taught on God, addictions and teen life.
I wish I could have attended his talk because from what I heard of it it was really good. Towards the end both groups gathered back together for me to teach cross cultural training. Because of time I was only able to give a overview on the definition of culture (shared values and beliefs that lead to characteristic behaviors) and discuss the difference between universal, cultural, and personal behaviors.
Afterwards the youth (who were mostly girls) invited us to play "net ball" with them. But the girls were disorganized, switching from volleyball to soccer every couple of minutes so I sat back and watches the guys play soccer. It was fine because I was tired anyway, I think I taught for 3.5 hours straight. I think it was good for the some of the teachers and interpreter to have some fun after a long day. (See photos)
I also was happily sharing my banana with shy children that showed up from the ophan school. The school is located right next to the church, which is where I teach all of my classes because it is the biggest room. These children are much more reserved than the other Ugandan children I have worked with. They are also more responsible with classroom supplies. I even got back all the coins I used for the money games, which I didn't think I would.
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