Hi All, Well I bet you all didn’t think you would get a blog from sunny Scotland so soon eh?!! It turned out to be a hectic few days at home but we loved it. I’ll start at the beginning, after I finished the last blog in Nairobi airport I called Emma and the conversation went a bit like this…Me - “Hi, how are you?”, Emma “Good, how about you?” , Me “ Can I ask you a favur?” Emma “yeah”, Me “Can Craig and Istay with you tomorrow night?...

Hi Peeps!! CAN I JUST SAY THAT WHILE I WRITE THIS I AM SO EXCITED AS WHEN YOU READ IT WE WILL BE HOME!!!! When we couldn’t get jobs in Australia and we changed our flights and shortened some bits of our trip it turned out we would be in London around the 17th of March so we decided that if we just cut another week off our volunteer placements it would mean we could be back for Chloe’s 18th Birthday which I always felt bad about being away for. When we calle...

Jambo!! Well we were right on Saturday we did nothing, the internet was down so we could not go on so we just went to the local hotel and had some soup and samosas, I am loving how readily available soup is here, its not a patch on my Gran’s but it’s soup none the less, Craig even managed to get me pea and ham by Baxters at the supermarket. Then we spent the day in the flat watching movies, you can get discs with like 20 films on for about £2!! On Sunday...

Hi Folks!Just a wee update to let you know how we are getting on. We are still at our placements in Mtwapa and we still love it! On Wednesday we had a day at school as usual. It is getting so hot now as it is almost rainy season so it just heats up and up until it eventually bursts and it chucks it down. It doesn't help that knees and shoulders have to be covered while we are at the centre. I sat in on some lesson s and did my lessons with the little ones. I do ...

Jambo from Kenya!! Well when I left of last we were just about to go for dinner. We had a lovely big buffet for our last night’s dinner and then we went for a couple of drinks in the bar. A couple of drinks actually turned into quite a few and a bit of a late night but it was a good laugh. The next day we were up and got the tent down for the last time!! We drove into Arusha and Craig and I had a bit of a dodgy stomach and when we got off to go to the ATM we...