For those of you who may wish to send me money, proper tea or cans of Guiness, my address for the next month is: c/o Hotel St. Germain, Antsahavola Tana 101, Madagascar. Somehow it doesn't look as though there are enough lines but I'm relably assured it's correct.

Today's lesson on Food went really well. The best bit was, having gone through positive and negative adjectives about food from delicious to inedible, I moved onto adjectives for flavour (sweet, salty, bitter, hot, savoury etc) and texture (crunchy, smooth, crisp, soft etc), We then played "Open your mouth and close your eyes and I will give you a big surprise" which they had to describe one or more of the given adjectives. I have to say the best result...

When I returned to my studio after writing a couple of emails and a brief blog, Eerie, the really nice manager of the studio said the patron had telephoned him and said instead of 40,000 Ar about (£14) per night I need only pay 35,000: except that I had agreed with them on Wednesday that I would pay 30,000 (about £10). We had words and I showed Eerie the bundle of notes that I had stuffed into my reading book ready to pay him "et je suis un homme honet&quo...

Picture: there is a huge flamingo population in Mondorova which I hope to visit before I leave. Went to watch a gamne of rugby at the national stadium yesterday. They were absolutely awful. I will go again next week and might even be persuaded to offer my coaching skills if they are no better. Don't know whether it's my French or their Englsih but it seems demain does not mean tomorrow here. Moving day now Tuesday. Apparently the guy who was leaving 'trompe l'a...

Picture is very much a part of Tanna life except they are usually carrying about 20 times this much and sweating rather than smiling. Nobody here is punctual. When I arrived for my 3 o'clock class on Thursday at 2.50 the door was locked. ALL my class were late. The fact that my lesson overran by 35 minutes just wasn't a problem. The patron was coming to see me on Wednesday when I moved in; he arrived on Thursday. Brian arranged to meet me yesterday at 2; he arri...