Some golden quotes from the latest test: 5eme Essay (Year 8s) Describe Your Favourite Teacher 'Dear Mrs Ndiaye. Mrs is a women she is small. She has the brun eyes. Her her is black. She as a small nose. Mrs is intelligent and good. She is happy in classroom. She is fantastic, super, excellent and kind. Mrs Ndiaye is extraordinary. She has nice yeux. She has very nice English than Mr Ndong.' 'Ciara: she has a nice eyes, and a long nose. She is excellent. She ...

I'll start with what was probably the biggest wrestling match of the year. Yekini vs Balla Gaye. Yekini is from Joal (so of course Julia and I support him) and Aicha bought us sarongs with his picture on for Christmas :) Balla Gaye is from Ziguinshor, which led to bets with SJ and Lottie (who Julia now owes 5 Flags - Senegalese beer). If that wasn't clue enough, Yekini was defeated. After a ridiculous amount of hype, the match lasted about 2 seconds and Balla Gay...

So the Easter holidays were pretty interesting. We headed off to Kaolack after Macky Sall defeated Abdoulaye Wade in the presidential elections (!) And stayed there for a couple of nights. Julia, Conor and Richard went to the Gambia a few days before me, as I had to meet my sister at the airport in Dakar. I took a sept-places from Kaolack to Dakar with Babacar and one of his friends. We got out in Yoff at the side of the road (rather than going all the way to the...

Yesterday was our last day of school before the Easter holidays, I taught my IT 6eme class in the morning and half way through my lesson (getting them to make powerpoints on their favourite footballer / wreastler / singer) some of my 5eme English students came in to see if they could ditch class at 10am, cheeky as ever. I refused of course and said that if they didn't show up I would go to the principal. The class went pretty well, it was on arranging plans / acc...

We've been seeing a lot of Connie, a Peace Corp volunteer in Joal, recently. She introduced us to her neighbour, Samba, who is a Batik and tie-dye artist. He's set up an art club for 5eme students (year 8s) in another school here. Julia and I have been to the first two classes and really enjoyed it. He was speaking to them about the philosophy behind art and got everyone to draw their perception of art and explain it to the group afterwards. In our art club yes...