Ok, so this afternoon We had the chance to visit the Chinese Textiles factory where they make jeans and other pants. Talk about an incredible experience to see the start to finish of a pair of pants. When you walk in the door, you begin in the fabric department where they are preparing the fabric for cutting. Then in the next room of this gigantic there are 150 rows of women typically who begin the sewing portion of the pants. Not only are there a 150 rows of women who are sewing, but there are so many more individuals who are working to complete and prepare the clothing as they progress through the plant. In total in this once space alone, there were somewhere around 700 people.
Typically, it takes 70 minutes to begin and end a pair of jeans from start to finish:
Unrolling the huge rolls of fabric, drawing the cutting lines, cutting fabric, labeling every piece of fabric, moving fabric to sewing room, sewing each part of the pant, labeling with heat setting labels, heat setting pocket designs, washing, drying, quality control checking, ironing, tagging, folding, and finally boxing.
Next we walked into the washing room with washers that were the size of a grand marque and craters that were as large as a medium sized kitchen. They were phenomenal. They mentioned that in a day they wash roughly 40,000 pairs of pants. What a load!
After our visit to the textiles factory, we stopped at a common meeting point in the town of Masreu for a quick 35 minute break. My friend Elizabeth (who I absolutely adore) and I went out to grab a coffee (for me a hot chocolate) and stroll the streets. It was great. She's such a brilliant person and really makes me want to work hard to be a great teacher. She works at the Yale Museum of Art and is a walking encyclopedia/dictionary of knowledge. I would really love to continue to be friends with her outside of this travel experience.
Cool :)
Next we went to Machole College to meet Dr. Teboho Motaboli where we learned about the initiative for change that the Lesotho people are working for in order to have a stronger society. The goal essentially is to help the kids develop enough knowledge to make good choices and decisions on their own. Our goal as educators is to work towards quality in the nature of the work we do.
Transformation from traditional to what is future oriented :
we change by developing new ways of change. Our goals should be to ensure quality participatory building goals with strong productivity.
How do you change :
We first need to create opportunities as educators. With a system that h issues, we develop ourselves as a leader/facilitator who promote new information that is multinational that help engage others into participating toward to end product. You define for yourself clues or things that explain what things you might need to do in order to change.
Quality Assurance :
Reassuring the work being done is of the benefit for the new way of change. There needs to be focus on teaching student to stop being passive learners, but rather done through educators who have long term training to do the job well. The Lesotho teachers struggle because as I talked about a Day ago,they don't have the tools they need to do the job well, OR the desire when their goal is assessments.
It's interesting how eerily similar curriculum is in the US and SA when there is pressure to make grades for examinations.
Ok so the US Embassy was way more fun than the teacher visit. Honestly the material was dry as heck at the college, but the Embassy was fun and entertaining to listen to. We were there for a few hours and were given a general idea of what they do, how they do it, and why they do. Honestly, I really enjoyed it.
Sorry again for the picture quality. This was just shot from my iPad from off my friends camera. I am in purple.
- With all my thanks :)
Location:Maseru, Lesotho
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