Heyyy Catherine and Pippa here!

 

We are currently working in Amaoti  1 a primary school right at the top of the hill, we are loving the views! Our days have been very unpredictable, we have been reading with small groups or whole classes (there are so many kids in each class), distributing uniforms and spent a lot of our time doing home visits. We have had to be very spontaneous and teach lessons at the drop of a hat.

One home visit that stuck out to me was a trip we payed to the home of a girl from the secondary school, her grandmother has recently had a stroke so is cared for by the 13 year old who also has to help look after 3 small children. While we were there 2 of the little kids were helping their grandmother wash her feet. There are so many other stories we could tell you.

We have just got back from walking from the school to the office- a plan the rest of the team thought was insane but there is a nice breeze today so we are still alive and ready for aftercare, the kids will appear very soon!

At the weekend we went to the beach  (Catherine is sporting some lovely patches of burn where she missed the suncream) and then went to Moyo a traditional restaurant on the seafront, the views at night are as amazing as during the day (we will try and upload photos soon). Several of the team tried the curry, tears then followed when they couldn’t handle the spice. On Sunday we went to church twice again and then most of us had a well needed nap while Abi and Pippa went for a run. We spent the evening watching Despicable Me 2 but only got half way through before needing our beds!

Bye,

 

xxxxxx