Kids at Play

Yesterday after school I went outside with the Kindergarten teacher to go over a soccer drill that I wanted to teach. Today, she explained it in Kiswahili to the Kindergarten class, and we had a blast dribbling back and forth in 5 lines with 5 balls. We then played a big game of monkey-in-the-middle before going inside to get back to class…

At recess, one of the kids (who presumably was watching us play out of the window) asked me for a ball. I gave it to him, and then another kid asked for one, and then another and another. Soon all of the balls were out on the field, and at least half of the school was playing on the field. I joined in the fun, choosing the game played by the oldest agegroup for fear of hurting the little guys. I haven’t seen that many kids out on the playing field during recess…..and the squeeling and laughter was fully contageous.