At half time, they did a sensablization on gender roles.
We often do this activity. There's 2 lines and it's a relay race between genders. Guys have carry a baby, a book, and a bucket because these are typical things that represent the roles of women in Togo. The girls in this case, carry a book and kick a soccer ball, cause that's what guys do. The girls usually win cause it's easier to be a guy in Togo and also most people drop the baby during the relay. It's all fun and laughter and easily underlines a serious point about the differences between gender and sex.
In the end, I think the score was 3-2, University of Lome, but they really dominated the whole game. That's all that is scheduled for 50th anniversary events, but I submitted a budget for a basketball tournament to the committee. Keeping fingers crossed it will happen. There's high interest because we have a real team and it will be really competitive. We're also out for revenge from our last loss.
Afterwards, we were invited to a BBQ at one of the embassy worker's houses. I've never been in the ex-pat area of Lome so it was a big cultural shock to see essentially the suburbs in Togo. It was kind of funny cause it was supposed to be a potluck, but no volunteer had access to a kitchen to actually cook something. Instead we chipped in money otherwise we would have all brought corn or beans like the village peasants we are.
