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...

Sorry can't upload phots at the moment and I think that another volunteer has infected this PC!! But this is where I spend some of my time and where we hold our workshops. It's not too far from home, just a short walk up the road and so very convenient. After my Raikos visit I thought that this would be a quiet week but it has been quite busy. My face iis just about OK and Sian wanted a picture and I can't remove it from being uploaded and typically that went in...

1 February 2010 Terrible night. For some reason could just not drop off which is SO unlike me! Last looked at the clock at 3:20am and the next thing I know my mobile goes and it is Ken sending me a text at 4am!!! To be honest I was not a happy bunny! As I had no credit on my phone couldn't even respond BUT did learn how to save it to resend the next day!!! It was pouring with rain so I used the Lodge transport to get me to the office early as I needed to print ...