Thursday - this may be the lance chance I get to write for a while - flight booked Monday to Kilimanjaro to visit friends in Tanzania and head to Zanzibar for xmas (hopefully) Feel very sad about leaving the childrten i work with and expect alot of tears tomorrow!! Had another great week with work - had the children out playing with water baloons and met lots of the locals from the township - we are having a party saturday xmas/leaving od for me which will be fun...

Another great week! Tuesday (world Aids day) I joined a protest/picket line (whatever you call it) handing out flyers, info and condoms to raise HIV/AIDS awarenews by the main road near our township - reactions were mixed - some people delighted and supportive others still in denial ... "its gods way" was the protest of one man - the whole communities are largely affected and there are certainly children in all our creches that are living with it day to...

Last week with the kids was great fun - challenging but fun - After trying to diplomaticaly introduce some structure into the creche (the teachers are quite hostile and seem to want chaos) I managed to discuss taking 10 of the older ones (4-5yrs) aside to try and do an activity (art or drawing etc) .... she (the evil teacher) agreed which was a relief and she said why didnt i wait in the next room (a derilict garage) .... well she then decided she needed to clean...

Wow, no work today - we are not allowed to go due to a violant breakout in our township - "taxi wars" as its being referred as gangs fight over business to run the local minivans - shootings etc which seems very hard to believe after being there yesterday but its very real and the second outbreak over the last month which got very serious so im quite happy to have the day off .... this crashed so now picking it up again a few days later!! We spent wed ...

I moved in with my host family yesterday - Brenda is the house mother, a lovely warm lady wo seems very laid back, and her son Jason who works for Projects abroad doing inductions and running a surf program. Her daughter Kayla and husband Charles im yet to meet as I crashed out early last night after my induction in preparation for my first day in the creche today. Other volunteers had told me a little of what to expect (I think pre warm me really) as the place r...