Kaaga Girls!

Wednesday we spent a wonderful day at Kaaga Girls High School. We were all a little disheartened about our shrinking team considering the very recent departure of Lisa, Lou, and Autumn. However, the girls were so much fun and full of life, we found ourselves having the time of our lives very quickly! Their principal was an amazing woman we grew to like very much during our brief meeting over tea. Our class in the library started with about 40 girls, all very enthusiastic about film and a joy to spend time with. By the end of the afternoon girls lined the room; the class had slowly doubled over the course of the afternoon. We set up a youtube channel for their school with the computer instructors and gave out cameras for them to film with. Unfortunately, the Everready batteries we bought turned out to be 'never ready' and they all died after about 10 minuets. But we all managed with what we had, and it was a huge success. They loved performing songs and dances and poems for us. A few of the girls had an amazing dance crew and offered to teach us some dance. We walked to their park and got thrown in a traditional dance with them. Yes, we got it all on film :)

All and all, this is a school we must return to next year in a big way, many of the girls want to be film makers and have scripts and ideas they have been working on. They loved performing and were all very bright and talented. When we left we got so much good will and were mobbed by students asking for our email addresses, Facebook pages, asking us to return. BIG LOVE to everyone at Kaaga! Thank you all so much for an amazing experience we will never forget!!!