Lost My Voice to Volleyball

After two very long weeks of locking myself away in the Ministry of Health's Health Promotion Offices in Tamavua, I FINALLY have finished writing my auditing tool that I will be using to evaluate the maternal and child health component of all the health facilities here in Fiji.  So just to give you an idea its made up of 13 sections each with it's own set of instructions, about 5-10 questions (although one section has about 40 questions... it's a supply inventory though so don't be too impressed), and it's own little macros code that automatically computes the grade each facility gets based on how each question is answered (don't be fooled... this coding has been the bane of my existence, and once got me so frustrated I may have almost thrown my laptop across the office).  

This is what my computer screen has looked like non-stop for the past two weeks... and this is the uncluttered version!

But anyways I felt like I needed to reward myself with a little human interaction... so what better than to go teach a bunch of fifth grade girls how to play volleyball!?

These were the most adorable little girls ever, they honestly made me feel like Taylor Swift the way they all crowded around me for attention.  I had an absolute blast teaching these 50 girls how to pass the volleyball and get it to go where you want it to go.  But getting 50 girls' attention requires lots of yelling... and I mean lots!  By the end of it my voice was almost totally gone... needless to say when they asked me to come back every afternoon for the rest of the week and possibly start up an after school volleyball program, the first thing I did was run to the nearest Sports World and bought myself a whistle!

Playing the Alphabet Game
(The girls pass the volleyball around the circle to each other, every pass is a letter starting at "A" and finishing with "Z", but if the ball touches the ground you have to start over)
Needless to say... we never got to Z :/