This week has been rarther good. It appears in Nshara school we have a change of head. Both me and Rach are FINE with this as mr Shiyo is a four letter word begining with T. Enough said. The new one speaks WONDERFUL english, knows all about AVs and what we do, what where there for and is genrally rarther nice. Unlike mr S he does not expect every letter we write home to be asking our parents to send out packets of dollars, embarassing us every break by buying our mandazis and genrally being rude and inapropriate! So thats all good. Weve finished the undercoat of the murla, now just waiting for COLOUR! Art club is immensly enjoyable and we;ve started the months new topic which is comparison. On friday we just made them race each other round the classroom then compraed who was faster than who, they went slightly crazy!
Friday night we (me, Rach, Kim and Lizzie) went to stay at Iklidinga house (now nicknamed Alkydinga) in Arusha. It was absolutely loverly. I am very jelous of their set up! I came to Africa fully prepared to be living in a small house, no running water or electricity (admitedly, they are not at all garranteed in lambo) and to have the luxruies lambo house offers is amazing, but it is SO BEAUTIFUL THERE! The back of the house overlooks a gorgeous valley where the sun sets red every night, the community of teachers is really nice and theyve decorated its all very green and fresh. Although there is no electricity the parrafin lamps (though very hot) add alot of atmosphere. Becuase lambo is so well protected we have a concrete wall for a veiw and as we live in a banana plantation ive never really seen the sunset! However, Ikiy does come with its downfalls. Becuase their rooms are on the school grounds the children are allways around and their is little privacy. going through their rubbish is standard. They told me one day they returned home, with the standard hangover to be greeted by a group of children with tampon applicators on their fingers. As they dont have such contraptions out here they obviously did not no the true horror of what they had on their hands. Never the less, they did not stop to educate them, they ran away for their lives!
Booked kili last weekend, so attempting that bugger three weeks yesterday, Not gunna lie, quite scared! But hey, twill be fun hopefully. Quick run down of next week, Monday normal day (though no market), Tuesday teaching in the morning orphanage in the afternoon, Wednesday (my birthday!) Pancakes for lunch, swimming in the afternoon followed by dinner at the hotel, thursday teaching in the morning, afternoon go to arusha. Via Via in the evening, hangover friday morning followed by leaving for the ngorogoro crater. Sleep outside the crater in tents friday night and safari saturday!!!!!!!! Back in arusha in the evening, back home on sunday. VERY EXCITED ABOUT ALL THIS!
Hope Englands warmed up. Tanzanias cooled down slightly, need to get some wellies for the rains though.
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p.s. hahaha, my spellings appaling. im so sorry you had to go through that.
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