Education is so important for your development, but there are some challenges (to put it mildly) that mainly female students face. So, one of the topics that will be covered in our documentary is the personal impact of sexual harassment in school.

Although very few official numbers are available, it is known that in Nigeria in higher educational institutions lecturers often make unwanted sexual advances, request sexual favors from female students, or commit acts of sexual violence. Already within the group of trainees that participated in last year's research and video training, almost all of them recalled stories about female class mates being harassed by their teacher. Some of them experienced it themselves. But so far, reporting these teachers has had little impact.

In government schools and at universities hardly any official structures are available to prevent or punish teachers. It is not uncommon that teachers actually conspire in harassing girls, protect each other, and just deny everything - like happened to some of the girls. Because any punishment is lacking they feel free to do whatever they like. And because of the strong African tradition of respecting elders, the girls are often not supported but instead accused of leading the teachers on. Tactics the girls use to prevent themselves from being harassed by teachers were for example: keep your legs together, don't wear make-up, keep quiet, et cetera. Students perceive the harassment as a 'normal phenomenon', and most of them view it as a 'normal' part of school life one has to endure.

But this burden shouldn't be on the girls. And hopefully government and schools take up responsibility to take action in stopping and preventing sexual harassment.

Once plastic bottles are empty, they can be recycled and/or used for different things. One of them is fishing. Yenagoa is built on wetlands, with small streams passing the buildings. The streams at the back of the compound make great fishing ponds. You just need to attach small snails to a hook on a wire and an empty plastic bottle. The catch (about seven fishes) is celebrated with cheerful laughter and fish soup.

From catch...

...to chopped up fish for fish soup.

All over the world playing soccer and watching soccer games is very popular. In the Niger Delta on Sunday you first go to church, then you go and play soccer or watch soccer on TV (preferably the British competition) or 'live'. The soccer arena of Yenagoa hosted school teams that played against each other as an opening ceremony for this school year.

In Yenagoa there is also a women's team active. But unfortunately they were not playing this Sunday.

It's a team sport.

Ready.

A star has been born.

And off they go.

On Wednesday and Thursday the girls were back in town for a feedback session. One day for each film crew. Watching back the footage is, like last year, a valuable time investment. There is a lot to learn and improve, although in general we're very happy with the footage.

Since we don't have professional light sets, the film crews depend on daylight. And since it is the rainy season, timing is crucial. Whenever there is no rain, the Yenagoa-based film crew is doing the interviews and uses the Wetlands Compound as its setting. Although the 'soundscape' of the Compound seems to tell differently, it's still relatively quiet compared to other places in town.

The other film crew seems to have slightly better weather, which means that the more village-like footage looks fine. But there are still some interviews waiting to be done.

Meanwhile I'm capturing as many tapes as possible, because time flies and we need an overview. At the end of next week we have to know what footage still needs to be shot.

I'm staying at the Niger Delta Wetlands Centre in Yenagoa. This time of the year also at this compound it's literally 'wetlands'.

Capturing tapes takes quite some power. And power cuts are unfortunately very common. In case the power fails again, there is a generator (actually, there are two) for additional power. Whoever can afford it, has a generator. Almost all neighbors have generators. That makes it quite noisy, as you can imagine. Add the sound (especially, but certainly not only on Sundays) of all neighboring churches - the turned up volume of preaching and singing, and cars and bikes driving and hooting.. Yep, that's what it sounds like over here.