This past week has been the last week of term for Orkeeswa Secondary School, being in the souther hemisphere, schools here are just about to start their summer holidays and so it is now a break until the 4th January. The very last end of term exams finished on Tuesday, though most of the students were already finished by Monday. As exams had finished but students were still coming in, an activity week was held. As I am the activity and athletics coordinator at ...

If I liked the taste of coffee, I would currently be drinking about ten cups of it a day, instead I have resorted to sugary food in an effort to stay awake and keep going. This weekend was possibly one of the best but yet most exhausting of my time in Tanzania. From Orkeeswa School, 63 students and ten staff members set off on Friday morning to spend the weekend competing at sports at an international boarding school in Moshi (a town near Kilimanjaro). I neve...

So, to make life slightly easier for myself this week and due to it continuing to be busy I have decided to write one post that I can put up on both my blogs that I write- about being in Tanzania and about autism, it therefore made sense to combine the two of them for this week. While I have not mentioned it on my Tanzania blog before, on the whole I am fairly open about being autistic and see it as a positive thing (although it inevitably brings along many chall...

This week has been a hot one, however the rains have begun and slowly, slowly things are turning into a more greenish hue which makes a nice change from the constant dust. The rains here are interesting, it never seems to drizzle or just rain normally but instead with such a force that the outside world floods, you can't hear anyone speak and the thought of going everywhere quickly leaves your mind. Then it will stop as quickly as it starts, it gets very warm, th...

The last week has flown by incredibly fast. In fact it is now only four weeks until I come home for Christmas. Time here is definitely a strange thing- everything is either extremely fast or very slow with very little in between. I have long lists planned for the food I am I am looking forward to eat when I come back to Scotland, and am excited to use a washing machine, shower and be able to drink tea without having to boil water for five minutes first again (and...