22/11/10 I went inlittle bit later this morning, so managed to have a couple of conversations with Cecil about things here and also to show him my drawings just to see whether he thought they were any good. I was pleased that he thought they were. Really pleased! My heart wasn't really in it today, but I was kept busy with 65 children. The numbers are already increasing with school starting to finish. In the evening we watched 'Under the Tuscan Sun', a lovely ...

17/11/10 I slept badly last night and had to keep on turning on the light as had things keep on flying at me. I got up early so took Sal for a nice long walk. The morning started off badly but out review meeting of the previous week went well - Petros and the other staff spoke about wanting to sustain the numbers of children when I left and how they might do that. They seemed to have a lot of energy around this and it was great to see some passion and energy fr...

08/11/10 I end up getting picked up by Petros this morning and I drive the truck into work. I am getting the hang of it a bit more and it certainly help to wear proper footwear rather than flip flops that keep getting stuck in between the pedals! The morning was spent cutting out cardboard shapes and afternoon with the children coluring. I sat the really sweet boy on my lap for a while as he was wandering round on his own, and he jibber jabbered away at me agai...

Hello everyone. And a Happy Friday for tomorrow! I thought I would jump on and leave a current message. I have been unable to get onto the internet for a while to update the Blog but have added some of it to keep you occupied. We have had about three storms and they have been scary! Temperatues have reached almost 100 and it has been hard going on the work front! But the children are increasing in numbers and they are a real pleasure to be with. I think the dr...

01/11/10 Pinch and a punch for the 1st of a month - I taught Tapiwa that this morning and also 'White Rabbit' (thanks Helen for instilling that in me!). We had the most horrendous storm last night which started about 1 and went on til about 5! I was really scared (again) and kept hearing all these strange noises (which as you will know, in daylight, would be perfectly normal noises!). As I kept waking up, I was worrying about Sally so a about 4am I got up and w...