only 2 kids, 2 future architects

When we arrived at the school on Thursday we were all surprised to find there were only two kids who had returned from last week. There were four other boys who showed up, but said they were unable to participate in the program because of a basketball game. This story turned out to be a lie. It wasn’t because of a basketball game; they only came to play on the computer. We attempted to recruit a few kids from around the school. Unfortunately by that time the only kids who were still at school were already involved in a program of their own.
The two kids who stayed were great! They were so excited to be involved in the program. The planned activity was to show the kids the architect’s plans for the new school, and then have them design the outdoor areas based off of that information. One of the kids expressed he wanted to become an architect. He was so eager to design that he wasn’t even interested in seeing the architect’s plans. He wanted to design his own school, from scratch. Given that we only had two kids, today was surprisingly successful. I was glad that we were there for the boys who came. I believe they really enjoyed themselves, and learned a lot about design as well.


sam