Day 13: Our Island Adventures!

hey everybody,

Today was our last rotation day, we started our day at 7am!
Groups 1 & 3 headed to the island Panay at 9am, as they reached the island and got to the ati tribes, they split into two groups with some finishing the construction by concreting the foundation of a classroom and preparing an area for a basketball court by digging out the rocks and sand to expand the area. While others were hard at work with their hands, others were hard at work with their minds teaching the kids at the school. 5 of us each sat down with 2-3 students from different year groups ad tutored them in basic maths and english, depending on their knowledge. Students rotated every 15 minutes which allowed us to help others at different levels.

After lunch we got back into construction for about 2 hours, once we felt like we had done all we could, we cleaned up, said goodbye to the kids and went to our afternoon feeding. When we got to the feeding, we sat the kids down and the 2 groups joined together to tell the kids stories and sing them some songs. We then made the kids some balloon animals and handed out their food. After the feeding we got on boat and came back Boracay.

While groups 1 & 3 were at Panay groups 2 & 4 started our day off with construction at the school Agape here in Boracay. While we were there we helped the filipino men to finish off building a rock wall which was very difficult because there was no space to work with, we had to stand on the rocks that we were meant to be making the wall with, which would crumble and fall into the cement. It was a difficult morning until we decided to leave the building of the wall to the filipino's and we mixed the cement for the wall.

Groups 2  & 4 had some free time after lunch, some went for a swim at the beach while others went shopping for themselves and family. We all just relaxed till it hit about 4pm, our two groups had to get all the activities reading for the afternoon feeding. We split up and headed to our feedings, we sang songs with the kids, and read/acted out a story for them, gave them some colouring to do and played with the kids and bubbles. They loved which made all of us leave the feeding smiling.

All 4 groups met back up at the Vista for dinner then after we had the night to do whatever we wanted. A lot of us went shopping, got massages or got more food ;)
It was a great end to our last working day and looking back on our trip we are very proud of what we have achieved and looking forward to coming back! :)

Natalee & Courtney