Just a quick one with a few things I forgot to mention yesterday: 1) Mum and Dad look away now - hired mopeds. Really fun if a little scary. Sadly though luck was not on my side and my moped broke down. Lucy had to drive me back in to Saint Louis, the most hellish five minute journey of my life (and yes, that does include every five minutes in every driving test Ive ever had, so you can understand quite how bad it was). 2) I HATE Bifals - these men who walk rou...

So once again I apologise for such a long lapse of time between entries, I have become even more lazy than I was at home, despite doubts that this was even possible. Life here is still as good as ever, although the heat is becoming slighty unbearable. Apparantly this is the hottest it has been so early in the year for a very long time. Its hard to sleep at night now and for the first time in a long while I am not mourning my duvet at home. We've had a lot of...

Firstly, I am so sorry for not updating this in absolutely ages, Ive been terrible recently, and have not used the internet. Im mad at myself because now I have forgotten everything thats happened but I will start a clean slate next week. Ive been ill for about four days but finally better. Was in bed for this whole time but I never realised being ill could be so sociable. Despite feeling really bad, its been great to have loads of people over to just spend the a...

I literally do not know where to start and this entry will not do he last few days justice but it has been so cute. Have had so many Africa moments that I couldnt have imagined. I love it here and I wish everybody could see it because it is such a great place. Of curse you do get days where you hate everything but thats the same as everywhere and the majority are amazing.I am so lucky to have some really good friends here who already I feel like Ive known forever...

Had a really nice couple of days despite the vile amount of couscous. Part of this Muslim holiday is the eating of copious amounts of the horrendous faux rice. As Ive mentioned before my family are not Muslim yet they felt it appropriate to take part in this particular tradition and we had enough couscous to feed the whole city. There is no word other than repulsive. It was dark brown and there were, no lie here, 20 saucepans of it. Ive just about pulled through ...