Can you believe it - my 3 months in Kenya are up?! It seems like only yesterday that I stepped off the plane to be greeted by the Kenyan rainy season! It has been an emotional final week here in Kenya, full of mixed emotions. On Monday I organised a small party for a few of Unity College students who I have become very close to (I arranged for it on Monday because I knew I'd be too upset on Tuesday!). They were all so excited, and I had arranged a private room a...

I don't know why it has suddenly come over me to write this list because I'm not feeling home sick (no offence!); but after a few conversations with people recently it got me thinking about a few things I actually miss about living in the UK (excluding missing people). Perhaps after reading this list you won't be so envious of what I'm doing, if you were without your creature comforts! So, here's my list of things I'm missing, in no particular order: 1. A washi...

Just a 'few' (!) things about what I've been up to recently...The weekend before last I wanted to go to the museum & I was told it was walking distance from town, but it turned out to be much further than I was led to believe (& made worse by people giving me wrong directions along the way!). Guess what though... it was SHUT!! Closed for renovations until July! It turned out that the Snake Park was next door though, so instead I spent my after...

Habari ya asubuhi (Good Morning). Just a "quick" entry to tell you about my WONDERFUL students! The class in this photo took their MS Word exam on Friday and got their results back on Monday... and the LOWEST mark was 82%!!! I am very pleased with them and pleased that they are doing well even though they have ME as a teacher! The student who got 82% is one of the ones I've been working closely with, so she has now jumped up from 54% to 72% to 82% fro...

Jambo! Habari yako? (Hello! How are you?) All good here. Teaching going very well, & I'm very happy with my students. I have been picking out the students whose marks were a bit lower, & so after teaching my class, I sit with them whilst they practice... whether they have asked me to or not! This means I can assist the students who are too afraid to ask any questions. I was very pleased to find that my classes all did very well in their exams, and even ...