Monire mose.

We woke up at 04:50 to get ready and make our way to mass for 06:00. Afterwards we came back to the house for chips and 4 cups of Mzuzu coffee for breakfast. We then geared up in Scottish themed clothing including hats and flags to go around classes in St. Patrick’s and teach them some Scottish songs and dances. We taught them things such as the Gay Gordons, the Military Two Step, Auld Lang Syne, 500 Miles, and the Flower of Scotland. During a couple of songs Marley and I played African drums along to the tune which led to the boys being interested in my drumsticks as they traditionally play with their hands. This led to me teaching them how to play drums with drumsticks and in return they tried to teach me how to play them traditionally with my hands which went not too bad.

Everyone then regrouped at the house and we set off to the primary school with different toys and games to lead a sports day for the children. Me and Olive took turns throwing a frisbee for the children to chase leading to them piling on each other to try and get the frisbee. Emily and Marley were using a toy bowling set with the children but they got out of hand and started pulling at their hair and pockets causing us to end the sports day earlier than we planned so we headed back to the house for lunch. Afterwards we headed to St. Magdalena’s school for disability to play games with the children. When we arrived the children were singing a lovely song titled “Disability is not inability”. I started off playing a velcro darts game with many of the kids which was great fun and after a while I switched to playing scatch with two of the other kids. Shortly after they sang their song for us once more and we went back home to prepare gifts to give to the boys the next day. Me, Marley and Ben were making bags with items such as pens for Form one while the others sorted out gifts for the other forms. After making the bags I sorted out West Bromich Albion football strips gifted by my dad and brother for the Form threes. We then had some free time which we spent with the boys until evening prayer and then supper.

At supper we were surprised with pizza gifted by the sisters which was a nice change. After dinner we went down to a hall in St. Patrick’s where we taught the boys some dances such as Cotton Eye Joe and The Macarena while they taught us some dances as well. We done this until 21:15 when we were all shattered and headed back to house to chill for a little before bed.

By Kieran Gaffney