Second episode on Sunday 28 February [you can telI I have nothing to do!!] Have had a great morning with 3 hours of free internet! Then after doing first BLOG I realized that I have not said anything about my "sink school" Raikos. Well I have spent ages this morning trying to download some great pictures [well I think they are!] of the three banana boats being loaded with the PCs and printers for the school. Only three came down the rest were "inv...

Sunday 28 February 2010 It is 10 days since I updated the BLOG and it has been a very busy period and very rewarding. Today though up until a few minutes ago I have been stuck in the house as last night, while I slept we had a tsunami warning and no my phone was off! I switch it off before I go to sleep as I have had a few very late calls from unknown sources. I'd better go back to leaving it on! I only found the message as I was clearing out my received mail an...

It has been 10 days since I last Blogged! Sori tru! What a week or two. Above is a picture of our two trainers for our HIV/AIDS workshop, quite an act but although they do all the work it was a tiring three days. Attendance was poor from the secondary schools but also from the Upper primary schools but those who came went away confident to teach this tricky area in a culture like theirs. Last day was Thursday and I went home to chill but two friends from Good She...

It has been 10 days since I last Blogged! Sori tru! What a week or two. Above is a picture of our two trainers for our HIV/AIDS workshop, quite an act but although they do all the work it was a tiring three days. Attendance was poor from the secondary schools but also from the Upper primary schools but those who came went away confident to teach this tricky area in a culture like theirs. Last day was Thursday and I went home to chill but two friends from Good She...

Saturday morning saw Ben and I along with Maureen and Janice, a student, opening hundreds of boxes of books donated in Australia and sorting into secondary and primary suitablitiy. Was totally shattered after 4 hours of this!! Ben and I will take them to our schools when we visit. On Friday we'll take some to his primary schools especially a settlement school and I'll take some to the Anglican ageny to get sent by river to Aiome and across the water here for Raik...