The journey from Singapore to Penang (a tiny island just of the north-west coast of Malaysia) was pretty long (12hrs) but sound enough - the coach was not too cramped and we managed to get a bit of kip! When we arrived in Penang, we had a bit of a mare. - It was 7.30am and we had no cash on us to get to our guest-house. We were shattered and wanted a bed asap, so I found out where the nearest ATM was - a half hour walk away - and went to find it while Sar stayed ...

Our journey to Singapore included a stopover In Doha, Qatar. We were only there for 6 hours and it was the middle of the night and we were absolutely shattered so we didn't see much of Qatar! We arrived in Singapore on the afternoon of the 27th September. As soon as we went through customs and collected our bags we experienced a huge culture shock, even in terms of the airports! Coming from Nairobi to Singapore was crazy! Singapore airport was very impressive, it...

Week 4 Jambo! As the forth week was to be our last we decided to spend as much time as we could at the school. As a result, as well as teaching we stayed after school most days and played with the boys. We even stayed until bed-time one night and watched the lion king with them! - So good! And set in Kenya so very fitting!! Hakuna Matata! Towards the end of the week we all started to feel aware that we would be leaving soon, I think the boys started to feel i...

Safari & Week 3 Jambo! The day after we had been to the beach we went on Safari for the weekend. We were to spend one night in a lovely, luscious, luxury lodge and try to see the big five in their natural habitat! Well, we didn't see all of the big 5 but we did do well for only two game drives. We saw plenty of Elephants, Zebra, Giraffes, Deer, Birds, Gazelles, Pumbas (Warthogs) and Buffalo! As well as a Lioness sitting next to her kill (a massive Buffalo w...

Week 2 Jambo! On the Monday of our second week in Kenya we were allocated classes. Kieran and Anna were to teach standard 1 (which was now standards 1 & 2 together) and I was to teach standard 4. Although I wanted to be with either Anna or Kieran I was also happy to take on the challenge of working with older children. As it was the first official day back to school we all expected there to be teachers in the classrooms and that we would be assistants - thi...