Right, first things first, please don't phone/text me as my phone is gone. No worries, as it's actually given me one of those classic gap-year traveller stories to add to my collection and hopefully I should be able to buy a new phone + sim card soon. Basically I was on a Dala-Dala going home from school, I had about 5 students crammed in on top of me and it was actually a fairly uneventful journey until an old woman decided to add four angry and (unusually f...

What a long strange trip it's been. Sometime next week i'm exactly half-way through my time here. Scary stuff. I haven't been able to blog for quite some time now, (powercuts have been really bad recently) but there's a lot to catch up on. First up, my housemates and I have left New Life Academy. The school is going through some adminstrative changes, and is closed for all of April, so we've decided to stay full-time at our government school, JK Nyerere. It w...

The end of another week and I just can't believe how quickly the time is passing! I only have 11 weeks left of teaching, and then a month's free travel! Insane. So, you're probably wondering why I have a picture of camels for this week's image...Basically, we went on a class trip on Thursday with the Year Two kids from New Life Academy to the Masai Cultural Museum and along other things there were camels. So we all had a go, and it was so much fun! My camel rid...

Back again, after another week that has gone INSANELY quickly! Well, the start of the week was pretty slow, we were sitting out on the veranda (i.e large step) at home on Sunday afternoon when the Director for New Life Academy, Joseph, pulled up in his jeep. After observing local custom (asking him how he is in about 5 different ways, then offering him a drink) he finally told us the news, we had Monday off thanks to George Bush! Unexpected three-day weekends go...

Hello again... Well, it's the end of another week (I can't believe i'll have been here for a month on Monday - told you it would go quickly Mum!) and i'm back in one of the only internet cafes in Arusha where the internet actually works. I was supposed to be skydiving by Kilimanjaro this morning but there was a pretty horrific crash (2 locals, 2 foriegners dead) so all flights are postponed for a while whilst the police do their inefficient, corrupt, thing. ...