Kalungu

Friday was spent at the Kalungu rest camp observing the work they are doing in the local village. The Kalungu center was very similar to the center we visited earlier in the week except they did not have their own school.

In Kalungu the training center partners with the local government school which serves students in grades 1-9. We did have an opportunity to visit the school while we were there and were given a tour by the assistant principal. Students were not present as they had just been released for a one month holiday.

The Kalungu school serves just over 900 students and each class has from 50 to 100 students! Students attend school either in the morning or afternoon in order to accommodate lower class sizes. The school building is quite run down and most classrooms are slightly smaller than classrooms in Canada.

Teachers in Zambia are dispatched to a school when they complete their training and must complete at least three years in their initial posting prior to applying for a transfer. This system of teacher deployment leads to a number of teacher changes each and every year in small rural schools like Kalungu!

I have posted some pictures of the school below...

Animal Sightings in Kalungu...

We saw a spitting Cobra which is able to spit it's venom 6 feet very accurately. The snake aims for the victims eyes and causes the victim to experience significant pain but not death.

We observed soldier ants which eat termites! These ants march in single file lines to a food source, devour it, and then return to their home. You do not want to end up on their path or they will bite which is very painful.