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| Bear shows the kids where we're from |
Our Fijian guide, John, took us on a tour of a school in Soso village on Naviti Island in Fiji. The school has approximately 60 kids and 5 teachers. All the kids are well behaved. We went to find out about the culture and the education. We entered all the classrooms, met the kids (there were more boys than girls), asked questions, and gave them some materials.
School times are 8:00-3:00 every day, but they get Saturday and Sunday off. They got to school for 14 weeks then get 2 weeks off. They get a 7 week Christmas break (sigh).
Their uniform is: the girls have a green dress and the boys have a white tee and a green sulu (a sulu is a skirt that the men wear -
I have one!).
They use chalkboards and do not have desks. They have long tables instead. The school owns the textbooks and the kids can't write in them, so they can use the books for the next kids. The teachers teach all subjects and are very kind. They even let us give lollypops to the kids! All of the rooms are very old (you can tell because they are breaking down). The grounds have a net ball field and a rugby field. There are even teachers' quarters!
The trip was very fun. The people were very, very friendly. The kindergarten kids even sang for us! I really enjoyed the visit.
