Hello all, We'll I've left Moshi now and am back on the Acacia overland truck. We're currently staying at the Meserani Snake Park just outside of Arusha. Because of the Kenya situation I was one of the first to arrive and everyone else has been arriving in dribs and drabs. Everyone's really nice and the driver and guide, Paul and Musa, are lovely too. The snake park is cool. The owners of the campsite were into snakes so set up a little snake zoo. I saw them bei...

Hi all,I can't believe I'm leaving Moshi tomorrow, the last 2 weeks have gone so quickly! I've just taught my last class at the Uwawayaki / Emerald Gael Secondary School. I'm really going to miss those kids, they've been so sweet, and so well behaved too! Today I did as little grammar as I could get away with and then played games For hangman, they had a go and their anwsers were 'goodbye to teacher sandra' and 'thank you for teaching us so well we will miss you'...

Hello all, There was a bit of excitement yesterday. 5 of the volunteers went away for the weekend to do a safari, spend a night sleeping with rats and bugs in a masai village and then finishing off with a trek up a live volcano yesterday morning. Apparently all went well until the volcano exploded. D'oh! Thankfully there were no injuries worse than cuts, bruises and a suspected broken foot, but all 5 had to run for their lives all the way down the mountain, d...

School is going better now. I have resorted to playing lots of games with the kids in between the dull bits, to keep them amused. They go crazy over hangman. Yesterday I got them to write a piece about themselves and I took them home to mark last night. They were so sweet. One girl said 'My favourite subject is English and I like teacher Sandra because she teaches well'. Bless! Blatant sucking up attempt but it's still nice to read. One other girl wrote a really ...

Armed with only a blackboard, chalk and a grammar book that I nicked off another volunteer, I made it through my first class! Woohoo! It was pretty scary at first, but I had nothing to worry about. The kids were really good, if a little shy around me, but I forced them to talk and have fun and we got through it. They even applauded me at the end. Bless! I've been roped into doing an afternoon class too with one of the other girls. We'll teach the local Masai bo...