So, the story that I wanted to get to that related to the title was about the last day that we were leaving the garden. We were told that we should collect all of our tools and bring it back to the center. While we were gathering our tools and leaving a man starts to chase. We look back to see who it is and to our surprise it was the school director yelliing at us in Wolof. We have absolutely no idea why he is so up set until one of our teachers helped us out with the translation. Apparently he was complaining about us not leaving the materials for the garden. The school director had made a comment to us be fore about how bad our garden was looking. He also told us at the time that if we took the garden tools away he would destroy our garden. This made no sense to us because we were told that we had to bring the tools back. Also, we are not suppose to supply them with materials. If they want to continue the work they need to get their own materials. We already provided free labor for them and also a demo. The school director was just really on a power trip, I hate to say. He had not good intentions for the community and the children that the garden could benefit for.
I was shocked at the un-professionalism that the man had when he tried grabbing the bucket with rope and pulley in it. Which they told us to buy before had because they didn't want to share theirs. Also, what was left of our tools was ridiculous, not only did they want to take our bucket but they left us two broken hoes and our wheel barrel which was in alright shape. Yet, we came with a lot more tools then that. They seemed to just all disappear. While our teacher argued with the school director on the next course of action was made sure that we kept the bucket close so he would try to pull another fast one. If he took that bucket we would have felt as if we lost our pride over the garden, not to sound over extravagant but its true! So, all in all we made it out of the school grounds with our bucket and one broken hoe :/
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