School Visits Saturday December 16, 2006

This week we visited two SMKs (Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan - Technical High School). SMK teach management, accounting and other general business skills. Interestingly, these schools are attended almost exclusively by girls. There were allegedly 4 boys at the first school, and only one at the second.

The first school (the name of which I will insert into this article very soon) was a little further out of Jakarta than those we had visited before and the majority of the girls were wearing jilbabs (head-scarves) so we weren't sure how sport lessons with big sweaty white men would go down (Liz being the notable exception). It soon became obvious that there was no need to worry and we played for a good half-hour with well over 100 spectators cheering the players on.

Soon enough it was time to head back to our old favourite Sekolah Harapan I to teach their SMK students a thing or two about ultimate. This was the first school we had been to with a female sports teacher and it really seemed to make a difference in how easy it was to get the girls to take the first step out on to the field.

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Photos: John and Howie.