" Abazungu ": Arriving under the watchful eye of a quartet of children. Thursday 9th April 2015 - 9.30pm Today was the day for me take the lead in a teaching and learning project. During Monday’s meeting, I had planned to try and work with Jonan, the head teacher at New Foundation Primary School on the Katuna Road in Kabale. The focus was to be on the coaching model that I had been using since moving to Fulham Cross, all with the aim of trying to improve the quality of teaching. I had also arranged for Suweyda to run an Art session with a different class whilst I was with Jonan. Along with Huda, Molly and Sina, we headed over in a special hire to be greeted by a tidal wave of children chanting “ abazungu ” rhythmically at us through the gaps in the wooden fence. New Foundation has a sprawling site set back from the recently re-laid road to the border with Rwanda. At regular intervals, large trucks, flanked by boda-bodas , would cough and splutter th
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