The view from the pitch aint too shabby

Saturday, July 31, 2004

Greetings once again!

Haven't got long so will type what I can. We've now moved to a totally different place, a school on the slopes of Kilamanjaro! It's pretty strange seeing the mountain top every day. It's in the middle of no-where with no internet, so I'm now in a town near(ish)by.

It's been a surreal week - we've eaten manure by mistake, Ryan's been hacked on the fottball pitch and has many cuts and grazes, we've learnt to never again play consequences with Tanzanians and we've taught and planned more classes than I care to remember.

The highlight for me has to be Tuesday, when we were told we were doing "Bible-Club" for the students and had literally 5 minutes to prepare a 40 minute long "service" thingy, complete with songs and talk. It came off OK though (I hope).

We weren't sure what we'd be doing before we got here, but we're teaching English and RE. Some lessons have gone down a treat, others like a lead baloon. But it's fun (if not tiring).

Everyone here is really friendly and we're all enjoying the weekend (we can get up at 7.15am rather than 6am...).

That's all for now, hope you're all well, hopefully update again in a week or so.

J

(PS - Karen - can you e-mail me to update me on GTTR if there's anything to report).