October 24, 2007 (Day 12)

We woke up and got dressed for our performance at the Ebeye school later on that day. We went out to breakfast and headed for the school and Deo had everyone assemble in one of the classrooms for our presentation, This presentation was a little bit different than what we had been doing. We set up objectives and told the kids some of the themes and ideas that appear in our piece. We planned to ask them questions after they had seen our presentation to see how well they payed attention. Of course, there was some difficulty in getting the kids to follow everything, but most of them got it, which was good. At the end, after we had finished our presentation and questions, we threw bubble gum to everyone, which they absolutly loved:) Then we went over to the gym and performed again for some of the older kids at the school. This time we didn't do the teaching part because the gym was so large, it was hard for all of them to hear hear us and answer questions. After we were finished we played the documentary "A New Island" about the Marshallese people living in Arkansas by Dale Carpenter. While the movie was playing a named Rogan came up to us and thanked us and gave each Shelby and I a necklace, which was probably my favorite gift form the entire trip. Another man named Jack came up to us and gave us some feedback about what was not mentioned or incorrect in our piece, which we were grateful for because we want all of our information to be as correct as possible and show it in a respectful way. After the movie was over we left and headed back to our hotel and got our bags and headed for the terminal to go to Kwaj. We didn't really have anything else to do for the day so we went down and bought underwater cameras to take with us snorkeling. Before we went out snorkeling we went back home and ate lunch. During lunch we began playing a game of Uno, which turned into a never-ending game which got very tiresome. After what seemed like forever, Shelby finally won and very graciously rubbed it in mine and Jacqueline's faces, which was all in good humor of course:D Then we went and borrowed the snorkel gear from Ona again and left for the beach. We took a bunch of pictures, although I'm not exactly sure how they would turn out because they didn't have zoom or anything like that. Shelby and Fielding decided that they would go back to Ebeye and walk around again while Jacq and I stayed on Kwaj. We went to the Micronesian shop again and then to the library to check our emails. Then we went home and took a shower and I worked on homework for awhile until I fell asleep on the couch. Shelby and Fielding came back and Shelby told me that we would have another performance the next day, besides the one that was already planned. After that we went to bed.