Here's a day in the life of the Urukundo Learning Center. AKA day 24-25

The main objective of the day is to create peace. People's beauty connects them to each other. The most valuable thing that I have always kept in mindis that we have learned the value of forgiveness. We learned how it feels to be in someone else’s shoes. Let’s follow along with the flow. We visited Urukundo Learning Center, where we saw chickens, cows, and pigs, and the school, Guss room, and dental clinic. Afterward, we also toured Mama Arlene's house, which was filled with African traditions and decorations. Mama Arlene did a fantastic job with how she used her skills and senses to build the school, dental clinic, etc. Yesterday's tour showed us that everything is possible as long as we dedicate ourselves to it with effort, determination, and consistency. Therefore, "whatever you believe you shall achieve” is a promise to continue to do our very best each and every day. Our daily pride and gratitude should be based on this inspiring quote. Let's use Mama Arlene's courage and determination as a source of inspiration to achieve our own dreams and goals. In order to make her quote an inspiration and to never lose faith in our own abilities, let's strive to make her quote a motivation for all of us. 
Today's lesson is a full-day story-based learning teacher training at Urukundo Learning Center. Having the opportunity to collaborate with the Ubumwe team was a great pleasure for me. They brought a tremendous amount of energy and enthusiasm to the course. I love each and every one in my cohort for the dedication, effort, and passion they had while we were training them about the story-based learning process. Because of their hardworking attitude towards each other and their intense celebrations, the journey was easier and smoother. I’m so grateful and thankful for these opportunities. Additionally, I enjoy engaging with a variety of teachers from different schools, as well as at Urukundo Learning Center. They are kind, caring, respectful, and supportive of one another with loving, caring, respectful hearts. I never had to work with or assist twenty people in a single group. However, today I work with the Urukundo learning center and other teachers in this district. In turn, I was able to increase my productivity, and confidence, and assist them more effectively. I have learned how teamwork really pays off through my work with my Ubumwe team and they have taught me how to do it. I’m truly honored to be part of this amazing community at Urukundo Learning Center. 
According to my Ubumwe group, the three most significant words on the list are courageous, intelligence, and happiness. Their theme was “Courageous is a key to success." It’s because of Ubumwe group I’m here today, it’s because of y’all I had the opportunity to assist y’all in story-based learning. As a matter of fact, each group that performed at the event was amazing, Mashallah. They brought joy, happiness, excitement, and motivation to continue telling our stories, not just in writing or keeping silent, but rather by embracing and elaborating our thoughts, feelings, and emotions into story-based learning that can be enhanced through storytelling. Consequently, we will have more opportunities to share our experiences and knowledge with others, allowing us to pass on our experience and knowledge.
Two of the lessons I took away from my Ubumwe team were based on the subject of mathematics. The first lesson presented to my team was "The prime numbers". The teacher started the lesson with an activity (He quickly stated that we should discuss and find the factors or divisors of the following numbers such as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10) he told us to (work in pairs). He gave us five minutes to pick from the list which numbers are the prime numbers, and then he started calling each group to answer the question. Therefore, group one begins by saying 2, which is a prime number, using story-based learning. Next, group two answers 3, followed by groups 3, 5, groups 4, 7, etc. 2,3,5,7 have 2 factors. If a prime is a number that itself has only 2 factors, then these are all prime numbers. Our next lesson was the addition of whole numbers between 500 and 1000. Keep in mind that we had two additions, one with carrying and one with adding one to ten. Then I would place 0 in the ten columns and add 1 to the ten columns, etc. As an example, 391 + 479 = 870. I would first add 1+9 = 10, then place 0 in ten columns, then add 1, and so on. As an example, we used SBL (story-based learning) to find prime numbers in these two exercises. We formed a circle and started with a member of our group who started with 1. Seeing that 1 is not a prime number, that person was asked to simply say it by moving his/her hips or by forming a motion. Afterward, we moved on to the second-person set, who demonstrated how two is a prime number using their hands and whole body.