Des pays et des gares...

Student leader Nkosingiphile On May 27 , 2014, team Super Strikers had their Grassroot Soccer/PC Skillz graduation celebration. Fifteen learners earned a certificate of achievement by attending eight or more GRS practices. Additionally, two learners (who graduated from the program last year) became certified student leaders! Grassroot Soccer, for those who missed  my previous post about it, is a soccer-themed curriculum that teaches kids about HIV/AIDS. It's also a lot of fun! The Super Strikers put together a schedule of events for our celebration: Welcome to Super Strikers' Graduation! Mini-Practice a. Energizer (one coffee, two sugar) b. HIV Limbo c. Kilos (coca-cola kilo, NJ kilo, and kilo kilo) d. Drama (skit about gender-based violence) Awards Ceremony Celebration! Bobet, my counterpart, helps explain GRS "One coffee!" First, we described to our guests (we had a great turnout, including a few

Today I took a few photos of my Dash girls (a couple of boys come to play occasionally, but mostly it's these girls :)). They are hooked on Scrabble Dash! This game is played with three decks of cards. Dark green cards are consonants, light green cards are vowels, and red cards are instructional. Players hold seven cards at a time, just like regular Scrabble, and are initially dealt five consonants and two vowels. When a word is successfully played, players select new cards equal to the number of letters in the word played – either consonants, vowels, or a mix. Dash Girls! To begin, the first player flips a red card over and everyone scrambles to put down an English word. Red cards contain instructions such as “Verb,” “Four Letter Word,” “Three Letter Word,” “Has a ____,” and “Starts with ____.” So, if a red card that says “Has a ____” is turned over, the player who turned the card over must name a letter. Then the first person to place a correctly spelled English word