Trip to Wobelenzi Town Academy

We have recently just come back from a trip to Wobelenzi where we spent 5 days doing volunteer work for a school funded by an organisation called serve direct. during our visit we were involved in a series of activities and conducted a variety of leisurely and cooperative workshops. 

some of the work shops included: 

• origami 
• spray painting 
• 3D origami 
• break dancing 
• computing skills 
• song writing 
• cricket

When we weren't doing our work shops in the afternoon we were helping our around the school doing things like mural painting, landscaping or building a goat shelter.

My visit to Wobelenzi town academy was an incredibly rewarding and enlightening experience. The students proved themselves to be attentive and interested in our work shops and showed an incomprehensible level of focus and maturity when it came to doing our activities. The students were able to communicate with us very openly and were vocal about thier opinions and were able to feed us with constructive criticism during our workshops. me and talisha were conducting a song writing work shop and it is through this work shop that we met arnold. arnold is a student at wobelenzi town academy who has dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter one day. he approached us on the first day and told us about how exited he was to be apart of our work shop. We had heard allot about him from the DP 2's but he has totally exceeded our expectations. He was so passionate and incredibly helpful to me and Talisha who were knew at the school and had slight troubles communicating with the group in English. In the end we were able to come up with three amazing songs one of which we sang on the last day of our visit in the school assembly. 

Apart from doing my song writing work shop in the mornings i would work on a mural with a few other people at the bridge. We painted a train with the alphabet at the bridge (primary resource center) as a favor to the school, it was a great experience being able to work with DP 1's on the mural and the end result was better than we ever could have imagined, students of the school came and helped us paint towards the end and we ended up having some great conversations. 

On the last day of our trip some of us worked with the younger students at the bridge doing fun activities with them like puzzles, coloring and flash cards. It was great to be able to play with them and do something light, in comparison to trying to control huge numbers of older students. 

Overall it was an incredibly rewarding experience and i left Wobelenzi with an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment.