Duty week

10/10/2014

Once a term for each member of staff at Bana Ba Metsi there is a duty week, this week was my turn. Duty involves generally making sure everything runs smoothly through the school day, such as leading the morning and afternoon assemblys, supervising the distribution of food at meal times and supervising study on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Sounded simple enough to me before I started. The meetings are fine, the biggest struggle is meal times. The boys constantly try to get one over on you and take more food than they are allowed. Not that I really blame them, the food they recieve is pretty minimal. The only consequence of this is that there will no longer be enough food for everyone else. Which in turn means I have many people annoyed at me for not doing my job properly, sink or swim. 

Duty week in all honesty is pretty painless, just tiring. One of those things where you are glad when it is  over. However I wont be glad when this week is over, this week has also been the examination period for the standard 7's. If they pass (fingers crossed) then they will be able to move onto further education. Which is great when considering their situation when they arrived at BBM. The downer is that tomorrow they will be leaving. Although we have not been here long, we the volunteers have really  enjoyed getting to know them, they have been good to us and helped us control the younger boys when they have stepped out of line. They will be missed by all at Bana Ba Metsi.

To celebrate the end of exams we held a party for the standard 7's, this involved a prize giving in the morning for academic and sporting achievement. which was broken up with entertainment from the marimba band, who are amazing, and Tim on his tiny guitar (who was pretty good too). 

The rest of the day was filled with good food, drinks and music. A nice send off for the boys, we wish them good luck.