On Thursday, we spent an amazing and yes productive day at Awet Secondary School thanks to the superior organizational skills of Head Master Mr. Malle. We were 'warmly' welcomed, signed the guestbook and met the teachers. Then we moved outside to meet 600 school kids. They sang "Wonderful Day, Wonderful Time" to put us at ease and then belted out their school song and the very popular "Tanzania song" (Tanzania nakupenda) which describes how much Tanzanians love their country. Kambi ya Simba community members rounded up the program with rousing drumming and dancing. Then the heavy lifting began. The Algonquin group lined up to shift three large piles of big heavy concrete blocks from the ground to the hostel building. Then they helped to apply mortar and lay the blocks. The walls started to go up!! In the meantime, the schoolgirls watched from the steps of the adjacent girls' hostel. Pretty soon interaction stepped up between the guests and the girls to the point where all of a sudden, believe it or not, a little group was doing the Macarena... 
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