I believe a blog is supposed to be written just after the event, or when the thought occurs, but as anyone reading this will have gathered by now, that's not quite the approach I'm taking. Luckily, the events that took place during the first weekend of August still stand out very clearly - several weeks (okay, months) on, as I sit in the tropical heat of Sri Lanka - which perhaps says something about the impression they left on me. Initially, there were six of u...

Well this clearly isn't going to become the multi-million pound, best-selling book (and subsequent film adaptation) I had in mind! They'd need a bit more substance for a start. It's weeks since I last wrote a blog entry, and I've also been neglecting my journal. Or at least, I was - until this week, when I finally got chance to catch up with myself. It's nice to now be writing about events that have only just happened, and not having to scrounge notes off more di...

Just two weeks into my Love TEFL internership, and my radio project was under way. The kids in the News group got off to a flying start, quickly grasping what constitutes a news story and the various ways in which that information can be conveyed to an audience. By the end of the week, they'd put together a full bulletin of local stories (the 'lead' - about new homes and jobs being created in Ocean View, where the school is - not being a far cry from what you mig...

The fact that I'm writing this in retrospect (more than two weeks after the events this blog documents) is testament to the fact that I am utterly consumed by life here in South Africa. To say I love this place would be an understatement. The fact I've fallen so hard and so quickly is in large part to do with working at Kleinberg Primary School in Ocean View, and, away from school, becoming friends with some of the local dudes (well, what else can you call people...

As the Summer sun finally shone down on England, I (along with 12 others) boarded a plane to South Africa, which is currently in the depths of its Winter. Now if you don't believe it could possibly be THAT cold in an African country, you'd be wrong. I now understand why there are penguins inhabiting the place. It's ffff-freezing. Anyway, here we are, in our Big Brother style house, in the small town of Fish Hoek - a 45 min train journey from Cape Town. As suspec...