September 25th, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ehoops is underway and new relationships are starting to form. Last Wednesday with the girls Ehoops session, which I will now consistently be working with weekly, we put sport aside and worked on some team building. In my eyes it was the best session we have had yet and the girls absolutely loved it. We did activities like carrying a bean through a straw, egg toss, toilet paper mummy wrapping, and blind folded relays. We didn’t stop laughing the entire time. My team ended up wearing matching toilet paper headbands for the entire session and couldn’t stop laughing. Our lovely PSNI officer tricked me and told me the eggs for the egg toss were hard-boiled. My team got overconfident and quickly found out the egg was raw and splattered on the gym floor! We also played blind soccer, which was a first for me. You kneel, blindfolded, and listen for the ball that has a bell in the middle to roll near you. So you are relying on your ears more then your eyes. This was comical to say the least, with everyone flopping and missing the ball. The girls got a huge kick out of it.
We then ended the session with an hour in the classroom talking about our community. The girls are from a few different communities but mostly Rathfern. We asked them to Google images of things that remind them of their community and then write a sentence why. Then we asked them to Google images of things that they believe other people associate with their community. This simple exercise got the girls talking about their feelings of their home and how they feel outsiders perceive them. I look forward to carrying on next week on the same topic now that the girls have had a week to think even more into it. Overall, I’m excited with how the girls are really opening up and I feel like with each week I make a stronger and stronger connection!