Happy New Year! I can't quite believe its a new year or in fact January as I am sitting in the sun. I have gone from winter to summer in the last 24 hours due to swapping hemispheres. I was home in Scotland for a month over Christmas. However being me, this was not as easy as it should have been. Just before I left for the airport in Tanzania I fell over. One very painful flight later and my Mum picked me up from the airport and took me home via A and E. I...

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...

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...

I'm afraid we can no longer be together, it's me not you… Or at least that is what I'm currently attempting to tell the parasites I've picked up in the last week with antibiotics! Its been a very odd week! But first to begin with the good stuff! Last Saturday the school competed in a sports day event at an international school in Arusha. Attending was six schools, all of them except ours were international schools. We started the day all piling into minibuse...

Another week finished in Tanzania already. It is already starting to move fairly fast. Unexpectedly this week though I managed to only make two days of school. On Wednesday I had to take the day off to travel into Arusha as another volunteer had a meeting with an independent organisation who are carrying out research as to the impact of education on the community and particularly on women within the community. As I am now the activities and athletics coordinator ...