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10 April 2010
Dates at project: August 2008- November 2008
The best thing about being here is the fact that the children want to learn so much. They are all very loving.
I've been volunteering since 25th August this year. I'll be here for five months in total. I'm staying in Ilsa's house which is in Antigua- I like it. It's clean, we
have good food. We're given breakfast, lunch and dinner through the week and we're given breakfast and lunch on Saturday and then nothing on Sunday- but that's nice because it's nice to travel on the weekends.
I've also volunteered in Kenya before, in a school and an orphanage.
I heard about this project because my friend in the UK sponsors a child here.
A typical day involves getting here at 8 oclock. The first job is to let the kitchen know how many children there are so that they make the right number of meals. Then the children do dictation, practising their spelling and their accents, reading, we usually have a break, then do maths. Sometimes I put examples on the board. The class I'm teaching is 3rd grade- their age ranges quite a lot and there's different ages- the youngest ones are 8 but we also have a boy who is 16.
The best thing about being here is the fact that the children want to learn so much. They are all very loving.
I think future volunteers should be aware that they will be teaching assistants within an already structured day. You have to go with the flow and try to fit in with the system here.