Limpopo Meeting Reflection 21 – 11 – 13

Limpopo Meeting Reflection 21 – 11 – 13

            In todays Limpopo meeting, 21 November 2013, the AISJ students discussed our plans for the upcoming year 2014. The written stories from the born-free Limpopo students will be evenly distributed between all of the AISJ students. The AISJ students will take the stories home over the December Break to edit. Editing will consist of shortening their stories and highlighting their born free idea more instead of their life stories, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

            The AISJ School will sponsor fundraising events such as bake sells, pizza sales, and Cinnabon sales. The fundraisers money will be distributed to each Limpopo student to afford the entertainment on the planned trip to Monte Casino.  The approximate amount of money that each student will need for the Monte Casino excursion will be 150 Rands for dinner, snacks, and a movie. There will also be parent involvement through the parent committee to help sponsor the trip to Monte Casino. There is a possibility for the AISJ students to earn money to help contribute to the fundraiser by working at the Mistletoe Christmas Market.

 As far as the sleeping accommodation for the Limpopo students we are still deciding on whether or not to sponsor as hosts or by accommodating them on the AISJ campus.

The Limpopo students will arrive at AISJ for the weekend. The preliminary schedule dates will be in January 2014. The AISJ students will continue to aid the Limpopo students in their writing on their stories. The students will be paired to shadow an AISJ student through one or two classes. The AISJ counselors may present health talks on HIV/AIDS to create awareness. We may get guest speakers from similar backgrounds.

My personal learning moment while attending the Limpopo meeting was organizing, initiating, and scheduling the weekend in January for the Limpopo students intended arrival. During the meeting, I added my advice and thoughts on many of the topics. The learning moments that we will continue will be with our experiences from our previous visit at Marumofase High School in Limpopo. New lessons learnt from our experience at Marumofase High School were to limit the amount of games we offer. We found its best to focus a little longer on a few games than to rush them with many games. There were no conflicts that arose. The big picture that AISJ is aiming for is a published book that we can all be proud of.