Youth Week

Monday was the beginning of Youth Week which involved a combination of fun and work. Monday the school sorted out all the old chairs and tables which were broken and gave them to village volunteers to mend, whilst the librarian sorted out all the books in the school, ones to keep, ones to repair, ones to throw and use for something else. We then went about sorting out new books from the latest shipment to put back in the school this took us until the end of Tuesday to complete as we had to label and inventory them all as well.

Tuesday night was meant to be camp fire night however the rain soon put a stop to that.

Wednesday was Independence Day so school and the library were shut, the day was kind of quite with people spending time with their families but in the evening there was music and local drink for sale. I spent the night at a friends house with a few other people and just talked into the night which was fun.

Thursday the school had the children planting and digging flower beds outside the school to make it look prettier, in the library we played a few games with them.

Friday school continued as normal in the morning but in the afternoon there was a small parade followed by a school concert where each class performed a song or a little play, we also had one of Yupukari's satellite village, Quatata, also attend the concert. There was lots of whole school singing as well which was fun. After school I did a craft station in the library showing the children Origami, we made animals out of paper the animals included Butterflies, Tigers, Elephants and Giraffe's the children enjoyed it very much and seemed excited to go home and show their parents.

Saturday was the last day of celebration, we had sports games in the village where Quatata came and another satellite village called Kaicumbay also came, Yupukari played them both at football and volley ball winning all of the games!! Whilst the games were going on people were selling drinks and food in the market square, in the evening most people gathered at the far end of the village where there is a shop and benab which plays music and sells drinks it was here where people partied on into the early hours of the morning.