This is the way we brush our teeth...

~ from the team

Day four started bright and sunny. Erin practiced her dental hygiene teaching the night before and was well prepared for her first session in the morning with the p1-p3 classes. The kids responded well to all she taught them.

Silva joined us in the village today and took us all on a walk through-out the village to explain the various types of agriculture. It was very informative and interesting. We saw yams, sweet potatoes, ground nuts (peanuts), avocado, papaya, bananas: he pointed out an improved banana tree that produce larger bundles because the current species is having problems with disease; coffee, rice, beans, corn, sugar cane. We looped around and were back at the school. During lunch it started to rain, but we continued on to Marare.

We were indoors in the newly built assembly hall for the second session of dental hygiene. After that we moved out to the now sunny field for afternoon games. Brian and Matt took penalty kicks with the children against Silva, which was a hoot for the kids to try and score. Sara sat and answered more questions about Canada while chatting with some of the girls. Ashley got lots of exercise playing football with the girls. Mandy, Jennie and Erin blew soap bubbles with the kids.

Later the teacher of p3 class went and got Matt, the day earlier the class promised to bring him all the foods that were not able to grow in Canada, they really did pay attention and learnt lots from us! He returned from the classroom with a bag full and a couple stocks of sugar cane. That was so amazing of them!

By then it was time to board the van, and we slowly loaded along with the usual crowd of handshakes and corus of byyyyeeeeee.