Sorry we haven't updated this for a while. Our time in Australia has mostly been spent looking for jobs, with the odd trip to the beach in between of course! We only stayed in Sydney for 4 nights as we didn't really like it that much. Its so big that its just not at all personal and its dirty compared to the cities in New Zealand. It didn't help that our hostel was a dive full of drunks! Once you've seen the opera house and the harbour bridge thats pretty much i...

Well our time in New Zealand has come to an end already! It's gone way too quickly. We started off in Auckland and stayed there for New Year, we started 2008 sat on a beach looking back at the city centre. There was lots of fireworks off the sky tower (which is taller than the Eiffel Tower). While in Auckland we also went to the museum and saw a traditional maori performance including a haka. We also went to the Kelly Tarlton Antartic Encounter Centre where we s...

Sorry we haven't updated this for a while. We've been busy!Last weekend we went to Ngong racecourse. There was a craft fair there. It was quite surreal because it was like being in England. A lot of the stalls were even run by posh English people! We only bought stuff from African stalls though out of principle! The racing was good fun, we were betting tiny amounts and won on 1 race. The language barrier meant we messed up some of the betting.On Tuesday we went o...

We have just got back from a three day safari to the Maasia Mara! We left on sunday morning, and drove for 5 hours on some of the bumpiest roads known to man. On Engligh roads it would probally have only taken about 2 hours. We arrived at our campsite, dumped our stuff, and went for our first game drive. The roof of the van we went in lifts up, so we can stand up and look out. We have quite an eventful 2 hours and managed to see elephants, giraffes, lions, a ch...

Hey everyone! This week, we have been supervising the children's exams from Wed to Fri. The system is pretty disorganised! There is lots of mistakes in the exams, we felt sorry for the kids because a lot of questions didn't make sense. The English one was especially error-strewn and a lot of the teachers don't speak good English, which is a bit of a problem when they are coming up with the marking scheme! One question in a maths exam was "How much does a He...