It’s amazing how the days get shorter once you settle into a place and you know where you are going, seeing familiar faces, on the morning walk. (The construction workers made me take their photo every time I passed by!) I have three groups of teachers to train this week. The volunteer teachers are from…
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Update: This programme has now finished and we have moved to the main Homework Programme. (Don’t worry I’ll get back to the Africa blog very soon!) Although the main Homework System has been working great in quite a few countries, I’ve had emails from a few teachers in places that aren’t quite so developed asking…
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After last night thinking a bit “What am I doing here!!!?”, today was totally different. I popped along to the airport to meet the local organiser Anne and we ended up having a whirlwind tour of the islands, talks about development and meetings about this week with the local team. Being part of the community…
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So today I was travelling off for my first ever workshops in Africa. I planned to arrive a couple of days early with my brother as a little adventure, but he got sick so couldn’t come. I was a bit sad about that. Eventually, after lots of flight delays, I made it. A lot of…
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Just a quick word to let you know I’m back from Africa! I had zero internet access whilst I was there so I’m way behind on email replies. It was an amazing time with some brilliant people and I’ll start blogging all the photos and videos next week, you’re going to love it! For now…
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This week’s game comes from Margit and goes with CD11‘s Treasure adventure:. What do you think? 1. Use the “Where is Baby Monkey?” posters (from the “Where are you from?” topic) 2. Cut them out and spread them on the table. 3. Now one kid says “It’s my pleasure to show a picture of Baby Monkey’s…
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