The picture is a school in Swaziland! Well I did start teaching today. Breafast stayed where it was put at about 9.30 so I hope I'm just beginning to get acclimatised.Had my first teaching seesion with the minister's staff which I think went really well and according to Vol who was outside they all left really happy and excited so roll on next Tuesday when we are looking at Food. Hopefully I will finish in one hour rather than the hour and a half it went on for ...

Bit of news about my ability to display my own pictures - which this isn't: Stupid bloody basic mistake. Don't bother looking for the camera lead Daniel because some other thieving b****** now has my camera. I always walk in the street, never on the pavement except there were bus/vans all over the road so I pushed through on a crowded pavement. When I got though there was a 4 inch gash across the back of my bag and my camera was gone. Angry? I was ready to fight...

To the very best of my knowledge there are no elephants in Madagascar. I arrived for my 10 o'clock meeting with the minister at 9.50 only to find the door I have always used locked. Other people arrived and tried and waited, Eventually there were 10 of us so, at 10.35 mydpatience gave up ans I found a chap who looked completely confused by my French but pointed me to another office. 15 minutes later I was ushered into the minister's office where both he and Vola...

Again the picture is from their library and irrelevant, I just liked the name apparently it's Dogon country. I have decided when I return I am going to live in Amsterdam…………….. or anywhere else where they don't have hills and it's been a very up and down day in more than one sense. It started off badly when I made the appointed meeting with the minister but he didn't and his assistant couldn't get hold of him. I have left the hotel phone number otherwi...

Brian did very well this morning. He and a friend found me a huge apartment with 4 rooms, kitchen and filthy bathroom but (1) it is far, far too big and (2) it was furnished with 2 large wardrobes but nothing else. No bed/mattress/table/chairs/cooker/fridge all of which I would have to buy. They told me we could buy it all cheap at the market tomorrow but it is does sound like a sensible investment even though, as the owner suggested, my whole family could stay t...