Uganda Teachers Act4Africa Expedition
Friday, 5 August 2011
It's the Final Countdown!
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Wednesday 3rd August
Sorry for the delay
Tuesday 2nd August
Hi all,
I hope you are all well and enjoying the sunshine in England. We started the day with rain, yet again! However, never fear because the sun came out while we were teaching in the tin roofed classroom - think of a pressure cooker and that's how it feels!
Today we feel like we have made a break through in school. The children have joined in with the telling of the story (Talk for Writing) for all those teachers out there!), answered questions and even asked for help when they needed it. They are so used to 'chalk and talk' we feel that this is a real step forward. We continued writing the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and we did some great Clarice Cliff artwork. Even the oldest and most boisterous boy in the class knuckled down and enjoyed success.
This afternoon we did some serious shopping! We went to Jinja town and visited the local shops. We bought lots of things for school - Maddie, I have bought you a sweeping brush so you can clean the classroom - wait until you see it! Claire B and Catherine bought some traditional Ugandan dresses, just like the one on my display board at school. They looked fantastic!
On our way home, we were stopped in our tracks by a monkey running across our path. The wildlife here just gets better and better!
Speak to you all tomorrow.
Lots of Love
C&A, C&C and Andy of course.xxxxxxx
Monday, 1 August 2011
Back to School
Sunday, 31 July 2011
We got a bit 'ratty' today!
Hi all.
Wow! What a day. We got up this morning and got some pikis to Church -a motorbike taxi (don't tell my mum!). We spent 2 hours at Jinja Christian Fellowship Church. There was A LOT of singing! Andy had to get up on stage and do a speech. While Andy was on stage, I saw something in the corner of my eye run across the floor. Alicia and I both screeched rather loudly, shouting, 'mouse!' Then it ran in front of us and we realised it was actually A RAT! We were laughing hysterically with our feet up on the chairs. The Ugandans were intrigued with our hysteria and told us not to worry because it had gone! We didn't listen to any of Andy's speech and we promptly left! Sorry Andy!
This evening, we have been on a Sunset Nile Cruise. What an amazing way to spend a Sunday evening. The views were fantastic and the food was delicious.
Back to work tomorrow - yippee! We're looking forward to another fun-packed week.
Lots of Love
Claire and her cruising friends.xxx
P.S. Sorry no pictures tonight, the internet is very slow. I'll try to add some tomorrow.xxx