Leave it to the Ugandans

Saturday was my last official program as an LEU member. We had a mass teacher training in the next big city over, Jinja, sponsored by a member of parliament, Honorable Fred. There were just the four of us, Erin, Elise, Rachel and I; everyone else had already gone home. Since we were a little short on people, we decided to ask some of our students to help out, three of Rachel’s and my Giants class, one of Elise’s students and one of Erin’s. The training went awesome, with about 120 teachers attending. We divided into two groups with Rachel and I taking half in one room with Ssembuze and Robert. I did one half hour lecture, and then Ssembuze and Robert handled the rest. I didn’t even need to be there. The coolest part of the whole day came when we ran out of chalk and I had to run to the other classroom to grab some more. I left Ssembuze teaching in our room and when I got to the other classroom, Fahadie, one of our other students, was teaching there. Elise and Erin weren’t needed; Rachel and I weren’t needed. The Ugandans had it handled; the Mzungus can leave now.