joshua jon smith- day 8
Tue 25th October - 6.42pm by Josh Smith
so today.....was another day at school...but.
there was a slight twist to todays plan.
at lunch time we split into groups of three and went to visit a stundents home, was really good to see how the students actually lived, after being tols so many stories. so we had to walk around 20 mins to and from the school to get to the students house, very deep in the bombololo slums, the walk was really eye opening, as most things are on the trip. you got to see pretty much the whole commuinty together, its a very busy place, with everyone either on a motorbike or trying to sell you things like veg. we got to the house and were inroduced to the family and shown around, there were 15 people living in five rooms, this was really a massive shock to us all. rooms were very very small to add to the crampedness.
so we walked back, and found to be some of the first back, a surprise to us really, as we thought we would be last back.
all in all today was a really good experience and something that was not in the trip last year wich was nice!

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Comment by Kate, Bens mum
Hi Josh,
I hope you dont mind me blogging you but I wanted to leave a message for your Mum!
Andrea, thank you so much for taking the time to get in touch! It is really great to know that we are all thinking along the same wave length. I am so proud of all the boys and what they are achieving. It sounds like today has affected Josh too. Its great to read other boys blogs as it gives you a wider perspective of the whole experience. Once again thank you for your message and will see you next Tuesday,
Kate
Comment by Josh
Sorry for late reply Kate. Yes mother is lovely like that. I hope you are very proud of your boy as he. Along with everyone is doing so well. This year it's been nice to step back and help out all the boys and tell them what they are doing well. And to give them some advice on things like lesson plans as I have learnt alot from last year myself and I'm sure all the boys have done the same this year.