Thursday, 29 January 2009
PHOTOS
The photos are of Mt Meru, the first thing i see on my 2minute walk to the school, gorgeous! some kids at Bourka primary where I'm teaching, my bedroom! with photos and a mosquito net! and some of the girls on the Greek Club :)
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Jambo!
It's been a VERY hectic week,
We all moved into our schools and bought food and supplies for our houses on sunday afternoon, I however wasn't very happy with who i was living with and didnt feel very settled...
SO i gave it a day and decided that having waited for so long for this trip, i was determined to enjoy it, so ive moved schools and house to live with people I get on with more :) I'm now staying at Bourka Primary school with 4 girls, Catherine, Katy, Charlotte and Tracy, i love it here and the school is lovely :)
ive been marking tests all afternoon and im doing my first lesson on friday arghh! will let u know how that goes :)
here's some photos hopefully, sorry this is rather short, the photos take ages to upload and i know ur all dying to see some :P
lots of love xxxxx
here we go...
no really sorry its nt working AGAIN any suggestions? ive made them smaller etc etc
xxx
It's been a VERY hectic week,
We all moved into our schools and bought food and supplies for our houses on sunday afternoon, I however wasn't very happy with who i was living with and didnt feel very settled...
SO i gave it a day and decided that having waited for so long for this trip, i was determined to enjoy it, so ive moved schools and house to live with people I get on with more :) I'm now staying at Bourka Primary school with 4 girls, Catherine, Katy, Charlotte and Tracy, i love it here and the school is lovely :)
ive been marking tests all afternoon and im doing my first lesson on friday arghh! will let u know how that goes :)
here's some photos hopefully, sorry this is rather short, the photos take ages to upload and i know ur all dying to see some :P
lots of love xxxxx
here we go...
no really sorry its nt working AGAIN any suggestions? ive made them smaller etc etc
xxx
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Last Night at the Outpost
It's our last night at the outpost lodge already!
We've done so much these past few days... we've visited all of our schools, the kids were so welcoming! We've seen all of our accommodation (which is all a lot nicer than we expected but still obviously quite basic) and we've met lots of teachers and their families and Madeline's family and friends, everyone is so welcoming it's amazing :)
Allan, an English teacher at my secondary school Enaboishu, has been teaching us all useful swahili phrases, such as how to get a bus/taxi, how to buy food, etc so that's been really helpful
We've also socialised in Arusha and at the "Greek Club" a local "western" bar which seems really homely which is nice if we were wanting to escape for a while!
I've also bought a new phone and sim card, my tanz number is +255783143790 my phone is a very old motorola with a blue backlight and the most retro ringtones ever, i love it though!
Good news also is that Madeline goes to an english speaking international church every sunday so me and Becky plus a few others possibly are going to go next sunday (this sunday we are food shopping), it's really good to have other Christians in the group :)
We move into our schools and houses tomorrow which is really scary, we'll have to cook for ourselves everyday and basically live life as an African! I'll keep you all updated on how that goes ;)
I'll try get some photos uploaded...
no it's not working lol
il try next week on a faster server!
take care :)
LoveClaire xxxxx
We've done so much these past few days... we've visited all of our schools, the kids were so welcoming! We've seen all of our accommodation (which is all a lot nicer than we expected but still obviously quite basic) and we've met lots of teachers and their families and Madeline's family and friends, everyone is so welcoming it's amazing :)
Allan, an English teacher at my secondary school Enaboishu, has been teaching us all useful swahili phrases, such as how to get a bus/taxi, how to buy food, etc so that's been really helpful
We've also socialised in Arusha and at the "Greek Club" a local "western" bar which seems really homely which is nice if we were wanting to escape for a while!
I've also bought a new phone and sim card, my tanz number is +255783143790 my phone is a very old motorola with a blue backlight and the most retro ringtones ever, i love it though!
Good news also is that Madeline goes to an english speaking international church every sunday so me and Becky plus a few others possibly are going to go next sunday (this sunday we are food shopping), it's really good to have other Christians in the group :)
We move into our schools and houses tomorrow which is really scary, we'll have to cook for ourselves everyday and basically live life as an African! I'll keep you all updated on how that goes ;)
I'll try get some photos uploaded...
no it's not working lol
il try next week on a faster server!
take care :)
LoveClaire xxxxx
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Hi everyone!
We arrived in Kenya this morning and I'm now sitting at a computer in our hotel "the Outpost" in Arusha, we're here for just under a week for an orientation involving swahili lessons, safety things and looking at our schools etc :)
It feels like forever since I got on my flight at Newcastle....
It was my first EVER flight by myself and trust me to land in terminal 5 heathrow! what a faff, thankfully a kind man carried most of my luggage and he was going to the same terminal as me lol bless him!
THEN I arrived at terminal 4 and cafe nero, where we were all meeting, didnt exist anymore! so that was another faff, anyway we all did meet up and it was sooooo surreal getting on the plane and saying goodbye to England for 3 months!
the flight was awful, had hardly any sleep and felt really spaced out by the whole thing of new ppl and the length of time I was going to be away...
BUT when we landed in Nairobi and finally got through all the visas and stuff (we needed dollars and most ppl only had pounds lol) we met up with Madeline and drove down to Arusha,
the drive brought back so many memories and the weather was glorious, even the smell of Africa came back to me! the smell of my insect repellent isn't such a fond memory mind u, ive already been bitten once I think on my foot!
All we've done 2day really is travel down to Arusha and have nice mexican food at our lovely hotel ;) the real graft will begin when we're living in our school accommodation...
I have photos to upload but the pc is so slow so il do that as soon as I can in an internet cafe in arusha, ill find out about skype etc then as well :)
got to go my time is running out on here...
I hope the weather isn't too awful, it's fabulous here, meant to be big storms on friday though arghh!
Much Love,
Sorry if this is a jumble I have limited time lol
Love Claire xxxxx
We arrived in Kenya this morning and I'm now sitting at a computer in our hotel "the Outpost" in Arusha, we're here for just under a week for an orientation involving swahili lessons, safety things and looking at our schools etc :)
It feels like forever since I got on my flight at Newcastle....
It was my first EVER flight by myself and trust me to land in terminal 5 heathrow! what a faff, thankfully a kind man carried most of my luggage and he was going to the same terminal as me lol bless him!
THEN I arrived at terminal 4 and cafe nero, where we were all meeting, didnt exist anymore! so that was another faff, anyway we all did meet up and it was sooooo surreal getting on the plane and saying goodbye to England for 3 months!
the flight was awful, had hardly any sleep and felt really spaced out by the whole thing of new ppl and the length of time I was going to be away...
BUT when we landed in Nairobi and finally got through all the visas and stuff (we needed dollars and most ppl only had pounds lol) we met up with Madeline and drove down to Arusha,
the drive brought back so many memories and the weather was glorious, even the smell of Africa came back to me! the smell of my insect repellent isn't such a fond memory mind u, ive already been bitten once I think on my foot!
All we've done 2day really is travel down to Arusha and have nice mexican food at our lovely hotel ;) the real graft will begin when we're living in our school accommodation...
I have photos to upload but the pc is so slow so il do that as soon as I can in an internet cafe in arusha, ill find out about skype etc then as well :)
got to go my time is running out on here...
I hope the weather isn't too awful, it's fabulous here, meant to be big storms on friday though arghh!
Much Love,
Sorry if this is a jumble I have limited time lol
Love Claire xxxxx
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Hi everyone...
Hi everyone!
This is my first blog entry to mainly check this thing works and get used to adding photos etc!
Here are two photos from my previous trip to East Africa in July 2007, these are two of the many experiences that made me LONG to return!
Meeting the children and seeing the amazing landscape and wildlife is something I am really looking forward to doing again!
Keep checking my blog, I will update this again after 20th Jan when I will be back in Tanzania :)
Much Love,
Claire xxx
This is my first blog entry to mainly check this thing works and get used to adding photos etc!
Here are two photos from my previous trip to East Africa in July 2007, these are two of the many experiences that made me LONG to return!
Meeting the children and seeing the amazing landscape and wildlife is something I am really looking forward to doing again!
Keep checking my blog, I will update this again after 20th Jan when I will be back in Tanzania :)
Much Love,
Claire xxx
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