To Bagaymoyo and Back
Katie Poch
Hello everyone, Katie Poch here. I hope all of
you are enjoying your summer; it is coming to an end very quickly. Yesterday I
had the privilege of going on a field trip with the form four students. We went
to Bagamoyo, about 45 minutes away, to the ruins, the old building where the
slaves were traded, The Catholic Church Museum, and also to the beach.
The
students learned a lot about their country and how it began. They saw where the
first people that immigrated to Tanzania lived, they learned about the slave
trade in the past, and also where the first Catholic Church was founded. They
had learned about these things in their history classes, but to see the places
that were talked about in their textbooks was very interesting to them. By
their expressions, I could tell how happy the children became when they saw
these places with their own eyes. We were not very far from the school, but
many of the children had never been to any of these places before. Some of them
had never even been to the beach! This was crazy to me as I have only been here
for 2 months and have been to the beach many times. Seeing how excited they
were to be able to go out and see their country was so rewarding.
It made me
realize how important, not only textbook knowledge is, but how essential to the
children's education it is for them to get out of the classroom and do hands on
activities. These kids deserve all of the privileges we have in America, and
this field trip was just one small way of them being able to have them.
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