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Namaste everyone!
Well today I taught my last class at Charity school, and I will miss them soooo much! (That is my nursery class in the photo aren't they cute??!!!) Since tuesday, not much has been happening, I've got antibiotics to get rid of my virus which it has done (wahey!) Joe has left the orphange and I have got another volunteer who I stole from a school in Lamatar about 2 hours away by telling her how wonderful the boys at GPPM are and how easy (ahahahahaha) my classes were to teach.... yeh she wont forgive me for the second one I think! So Carolyn is living with me in my family and when I leave she will move into my room, so it is nice to have another female to talk to and also at night when we go back home, she can take some of the family heat from me haha! So my days are prety busy and full so I always go home shattered from the orphanage and school.
Fallon- Prakash and Rita are asking for you, they actually always try to get off my lesson plan and talk about you, Lizzie and Janette!
The school is getting worse, the roof frequently blows off, the ground is eroding even more so that we now have to jump across a certain bit at class 2 on my way to class 3 and the bloody dogs (as Charity are currently slightly homeless some of the kids sleep in the school, they have bunks, some sleep on the desks, safe huh?!) have gone crazy and started trying to bite us and the kids. Liitle do the dogs know that when we eventually find a new home for Charity they are not coming with us!
Dogs on heat aside, I will really miss the kids at Charity, all 42 of them! This morning I was giving one of them Ashok, a dettol bath as he is covered in scabies and loves to scratch, which means he has spread scabies everywhere and I was thinking how much I would miss doing things like this. He was really good as well, not shy about stripping off and hopping on a desk so I could cover his bum in dettol and calamine lotion, in fact for most of the little kids the hard part is trying to get them to put their clothes back on again!! The teachers as well are lovely although I wish they would turn up a bit more and were asking for a specific return date.... same old same old! So that is Charity.
GPPM are fairly quiet these days in terms of scandal! It was mingmars brithday on thursday so we had cake and juice (way to go, fill them with sugar they aren't used to having and watch the fireworks) so this morning there were a few cases of vomiting before school and just a general come down from the night before! So the next few days will be showing Carolyn the ropes, its all about routine! When you have a lot of kids a good routine works wonders especially if you are doing it by yourself until another volunteer arrives! Right now she is feeling a little overwhelmed which is understandable but I have no doubt she'll manage fine, hey she has me as a teacher what could possibly go wrong?! (Poor girl) so I'm off to pick up some cotton wool for the orphanage first aid kit and then heading back to the village. Hope you are all safe and well and healthy of course, God knows I'm not! :)
Yes David I went bunjee jumping it was amazing, the one I done was also the highest and longest drop in the world, so why do another one? No surgery to perform this year (dammit) although I am still having to be Dr. lauren at times!
Much love to you all
Lauren
xxxxxx
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