Blog about our week at Tunisia

In one word Fantastic!

I will explain in big lines what we have done in Tunisia.

We had to be at school at 8 o’clock if I remember it right. We jumped in the bus quickly, ready to go to schiphol for the flight to Tunisia. We flew with Tunis Air. It amazed me that we didn’t fell out of the air with that plane.

Finally, when we were at the airport at Tunisia we did go by bus to the little schools. The school where I went to, named Adiba, was the last school of the bus trip. So we had to wait very long before we were there.

I thought it would be very primitive. But it wasn’t very bad at all. We had a Toilet! And water taps. There was also a kitchen. And a quite big sleeping room. It fitted precisely with al our luggage included. We had a group of 16 students including the two teachers.

The children were sweet. Al the time they said Bonjour Madame, salut. So sweet! They were curious but also reserved.

We builded a swing, a couple of farm irrigationsystems and painted a lot of things.

On Wednesday in the afternoon we had a tournament with al sorts of games. Chair dancing, tug-of-war, soccer with water bottles and a lot more games.

Marlie and I guided tin throwing. (I don’t know how to call it in English) It was a hell of a job! Those kids where so enthusiastic. They were almost fighting for the balls to throw. We wanted the kids to stand in two rows, but they didn’t understand that. Lucky for us a teacher came and helped us and also to keep the children calm! But after all it was a great experience. How those kids can be happy with nothing.

It was also a lot of fun with the group. Every evening we had a big campfire. If you had a hole in you’re jeans, you had to be aware that it wasn’t ripped of your legs, to feed the campfire. A lot of fun! All the rubbish we had went on the fire. If we didn’t do it the teachers of the school would also burn it behind the toilets. And of course we had marshmallows and kruidnoten.

We spent two nights in a hotel named Tej Mahadar in Sousse. And we have been going out in a discotheque with 70 people total. A whole bunch of kaaskoppen together. Of course we had after party’s in the hotel rooms. They we’re a lot of fun too!

After all it strikes me that you become acquainted with you’re classmates of completely other sides. You get to know eachother much better.

It was great, just outrageous!

I have so much more to tell, but it’s far to much for this blog.