Friendship bracelets Off to school again for another day. Today we helped by setting up the water for all the 150ish kids. After this we sorted out the treat of mandarins before we got pulled into playing snakes and ladders again, this time with a plan. Sarah went to the next table and setup to make friendship bracelets. After a minute a girl walked in and Sarah offered to teach her. It was only after one game we moved onto the other table and making bracelets. ...

Just another day in the life of volunteer travellers Ahhhh, we have Spanish lesions at night today and not in the morning so we got to have a sleep in for an hour. When we got to school, the morning started with a huge bag of broad beans needing to be 'top and tailed.' By popular demand we played more snakes and ladders, this time big numbers only. The kids were getting it, first missing the 'ty' sound off the end of all the numbers 20 to 99 but after a while...

'Romance' language. We had Spanish in the morning where we learnt that there more than one past tense, which when you think about it it's hard to guess what it could be. The basic is that they have a past tense for the past that won't happen again and a past tense for the past that could happen again. It's incredible and might be why it's a 'romance' language. Eg by saying i loved them you say either; I loved them but never again or I loved but I hope to love t...

I got up painfully early after a late one last night to Skype mum and dad, but it was defiantly worth it. It's only days till they leave to experience South America. I still haven't told them toilet paper goes in the bin next to the toilet..... which is fine until you think of the state a public toilet could get to! After this we had our Spanish lesion where we learnt about emotions in Spanish, and some more tenses. At school we taught a little English while p...

To market, to market... Sarah got up to Skype the parents, Sue and Matt, and introduce them to our dog and show them the apartment. We followed this with a market day, running errands. The market day consisted of purchasing all sorts of food, school supplies and getting some clothing fixed. Believe it or not (i say do) i wore through the pockets of a pair of chinos (like jeans). Clothes on a trip like this sure do get a beating. We did everything else and retu...