A belated post that has waited a few weeks before an internet place could send it !!
on Julia in Nigeria (Nigeria), 26/Jun/2008 15:39, 34 days ago
It’s been a hectic few weeks again. I had a bit of time out in Jos countryside, in an area called Vom one week and in the familiar Shere Hills the week later, which was beautiful as you can see from the pictures. Back at school, I had a staff development day last week and then there was Children’sDay which was great fun. It was entertaining to see the children learning to do the egg and spoon, three legged race and the sack race as none of them had tried it before! But they loved it as you can see. One little girl, Judith, was so cute when we were doing the three legged race. She uses a wheelchair and can’t walk but she really wanted to take part in the race too, pointing to all the ties showing us that she wanted to tie her legs together! So we attached her foot to the chair and gave the wheelchair race an extra edge! She was so pleased to be like the other children who were having their legs tied together!We also brought a horse along to give some of the children some rides, which went down well. I was in charge of the obstacle course but we had a few practices before the day so it didn’t go too disastrously! No-one ran in the opposite direction or twisted their ankles at least!It was my house mate’s birthday at the weekend too so he has a big barbeque to celebrate. We partied into the night using the front room as a disco! We had to hunt around the place to borrow a generator for the night as the electricity has been terrible here recently. We have had to give up buying any kind of dairyor even much veg as it goes off so quickly. Its amazing how fast mould grows in a fridge that doesn’t turn on! We were excited last week as the power came on for the first time for a few days but then it was such low voltage it wasn’t enough to turn the fridge on and it took an hour to warm up the laminator! Not great for a laminating freak like me!I don’t have long to go at school now so I am busy finishing off all the last things I have to make and write up! Better get to it!...