Cooking class.

With an early start and very little sleep it was hard getting up to go to Yakini but it was well worth the early start we had the best time teaching the children how to make sandwiches and fruit salad, a lot of children said they had helped cooking but hardly any of them had made a sandwich, we were working with roughly around 120 children which is hard in any situation but was worth the effort to see that they had enjoyed themselves. The children were so safe and sensible with the sharp knives it was a pleasure to teach them, and they enjoyed eating the food they had made themselves. My group was in charge of the fruit salad, we were set up on a station outside, and the children got to take it in turns to help cut up the fruit.  Sadly some of the younger ones wanted in on the action and the place got a bit hectic, but we asked the Headteacher to calm them down, he did so and we then cleaned the room with help of the children. The children at Yakini and the center have an amazing work ethic when it comes to cleaning and washing, they work together and they do it all with out moaning, which I know if that was me as a child I would have had something to say. Even myself as a child would not be expected to clean like they do at school, we would clear up after ourselves and that's about it, but they clean down the tables, brush then mop the floor, I watch in admiration, and tried to helped but they wouldn't let me.