Monday, January 16, 2006
Kampala Team Retreat
When our team went to Kampala for a team retreat the last week in October, we stayed at the “American Club,” a nice hotel that serves many American foods--like icecream!
Anyhow, it is a goal for our team to have 2 retreats each year. This particular one was focused more on “work,” as everyone worked hard to edit an existing team policies document. As teachers, Amy and I were in charge of caring for the children for a couple of the morning sessions. I planned one morning, where we learned about spiders and did several activities which centered on spiders. For example, we made spider cupcakes, created spider webs out of yarn, did some spider dances and even made spiders on the sand volleyball court. It was lots of fun and very challenging to find things to keep kids aged 18 months - 4th grade entertained for several hours.
One night, the adults all went out to dinner at Mamba Point, a VERY fancy Italian restaurant.
Sunday morning, after taking MANY agonizing team pictures (which turned out great!) we had some worship time together as a team. Then we headed to the quarterly meeting Fall Festival.
It was a fun “get- away” from Mbarara and a great time to bond with my teammates.
*See the pictures from Team Retreat at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bethellent/my_photos
Anyhow, it is a goal for our team to have 2 retreats each year. This particular one was focused more on “work,” as everyone worked hard to edit an existing team policies document. As teachers, Amy and I were in charge of caring for the children for a couple of the morning sessions. I planned one morning, where we learned about spiders and did several activities which centered on spiders. For example, we made spider cupcakes, created spider webs out of yarn, did some spider dances and even made spiders on the sand volleyball court. It was lots of fun and very challenging to find things to keep kids aged 18 months - 4th grade entertained for several hours.
One night, the adults all went out to dinner at Mamba Point, a VERY fancy Italian restaurant.
Sunday morning, after taking MANY agonizing team pictures (which turned out great!) we had some worship time together as a team. Then we headed to the quarterly meeting Fall Festival.
It was a fun “get- away” from Mbarara and a great time to bond with my teammates.
*See the pictures from Team Retreat at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bethellent/my_photos
# posted by beth @ 2:54 PM 
