Time is teetering on 10pm, I'm sitting at my computer listening to Ray Lamontagne as a buffer against the noise of four of my male colleagues making a door, literally, for another colleague that lives next door to me. Filing and sawing and banging and crashing. 10pm seems like a reasonable hour to be making a door. Upon finding them all there, in a pow-wow around the slab of wood that was to become a door I naturally left and returned with cookies that I had ba...

Learners say the darnedest things.. I've come to realise that as time wears on here, things that used to be the starring content of my blogs have become so commonplace that I fail to give them the credit they deserve anymore. Learners, however, never fail to catch me off guard and make me smile, laugh, cry or shake my head with the sweet, quirky, unassuming and utterly priceless things that they say and write on a daily basis. I try my best to take note of t...

I'd just like to start by saying...Happy April Fools Day! If you truly believed that I my school was on lock down due to threatening, hostile elephants then the joke is on you. There were no elephants, we were not locked in our classrooms, and learners were not using the corner of the computer lab as a makeshift latrine. I thoroughly enjoyed coming up with that, and my learners especially were thrilled at the thought of tricking you all back home. So...cheers! ...

<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> I'm writing from my school's computer lab right now. I have been in here for the past three hours under..unusual circumstances. As you read on, keep in mind that I, as well as everyone else to the best of my knowledge, am fine. A few weeks ago I mentioned that a lion was spotted and killed just outside of Okahao. There are very few sightings of large wild animals in these ...

<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Birthday Weekend Adam and Rachel, both of whose schools are closed due to flooding, came into Okahao on Thursday the 12th to visit my school and teach with me on Friday and to celebrate my birthday weekend. Rachel is the volunteer who I have spent the most time with since being stationed in the north. Her school has been closed since just after Valentine's Day and so she ...