21st to 23rd March The fantastic Festival of the Arts at ALA - Following our trip to Cape Town, we had a busy week in the run up to the big 3 day Festival of the Arts. (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) Shena put on a display of the students artworks in the Foyer of the Auditorium where there was to be Choir and Dance Performances and a Play put on over the 3 days. There were invited guests from out of the schooland it was quite a festival. Cousin Jane came with a frien...

Now up to date with blogs (two new today) To see previous entries -click on blog tab above. The latest blog describing our trip to Cape Town follows...... We have had long weekend in Cape Town. Leaving on Sunday and staying till Tuesday afternoon. Cape Town is a very dramatic city with the tabletop mountain providing an impressive backdrop to the city which is also on a harbour, and beach;so it has both the mountains and the beaches around it. One is struck imme...

This blog about visiting the Richard Branson school of Entrepeneurship is about a week late but your blog editor, despite the many demands on his time is finally up to date in the blog which immediately follows - about our trip to Cape Town Last week we had an interesting trip into Joburg city central.on Wednesday morning to visit the Richard Branson School of Entrepreneurship. Owen Burton (Bizza) (Rachaels Husband)is the acting CEO there and he invited us to se...

We are at the end of our second week and we had a fantastic tour of Johannesburg on Satrurday. Jane (Jack's cousin) has been so generous and hospitable in taking us around to see the downtown area which is crowded and busy; cars everywhere and nobody minding any rules very much. It was also spot the whitey, as there were mostly black people with stalls on the street and buildings which had been deserted and then taken over by squatters.They are trying to clean it...

This update is from the previous week -about 23 Feb 2010. your blog editor is running behind, but intent on catching up....... Well we are up and running at ALA. Yesterday was my introduction at the school assembly and I had to give a short address to the school to say who I was and what I was going to be doing at ALA. I only had 5 minutes so had to be short and enthusiastic about it. After that Jack and I and Gavin went to get the room ready as a class room. ...