School began over one month go after a short three week break. But due to the fact we live about three metres from our school which means constantly being hassled by children, I have only just managed grab the opportunity to sit down at a rare quiet and peaceful atmosphere to write this blog about how I spent my three week break in May. In the previous school holidays all the way back in January, myself and my partner Roberta (and also with the help of our fello...

The last time that I wrote a blog, the new 12 week term had just begun - the first of a new year for the school and the second out of three for me whilst here in Uganda. Now, over 12 weeks later, here I am writing an End of Term blog not knowing what on Earth to say and wondering where the hell the last twelve weeks have gone?! In this last school term, Roberta and I moved away from the nursery and focused solely on teaching in the primary school. After a few d...

In the UK, 'back to school' means endless George at Asda adverts promoting their easy iron shirts on the telly. But when February the 3rd came, we knew it was back to school for us by the return of the screaming children outside our window and half past 7 in the morning. Last term, myself and my partner Roberta mainly worked in the nursery class. Although we absolutely loved that, teaching the numbers 1 to 5 wasn't what we wanted to carry on doing for the rest ...

I can not believe it is 2014! Where is the time going?! It's hard to believe that Christmas was only last month, it feels as if it was decades ago. I am only just getting round to writing this because it has been a very hectic past month with many crazy events for me to update you on in another blog. On the 19th of December myself and Roberta took the ten hour journey to the small village of Kaihura, near Fort Portal, where we planned to spend my birthday and ou...