The 29th of March

When I was told that we were going to sleep for a night in the slum a lot of thoughts ran though my head. I think I can say that almost everyone was kind of nervous about going there. We talked about our hopes and fears like: What could we expect? How do the people in the slum live? Can they speak English? and so on. Unfortunately, some of us woke up Tuesday morning with bad stomach. We wanted to go so much that some of us doped our bodies with Imodium and went. We arrived in the evening and all of the people thought that we were very interesting. We had an introduction to the slum and the program for the night. Afterwards they showed us around in the slum. At 6 pm the “fun” began. We taught them the “Bunny Bunny” and the “Pony” and they all thought that it was very funny. We learned how to play some different games too. Then we danced and had fun all the evening as scheduled. All of the children were asking “What is your name sister?” and I think that all of us were told that we had very beautiful names. Afterwards we went to our host families to have dinner and spend the night there. Some of us had to eat with one family and sleep with another, but it was totally okay. We all lived with very different families; some were more reserved than others. The place where I had to stay was a house only made by sheets of metal and I couldn’t even stand in an upright position. We enjoyed the night with the family and some of us tried to sleep while listening to the rats running around on the thin roof made of metal. We met in the morning with smiles on our faces, but also very tired. The people from the slum held a last ceremony to thank us for staying there. I think I can say that everybody were very happy that they decided to go to slum and we all had an experience that we will never forget.
- Stine