I’m in a Jeep, blasting along a dirt road in the Savannah, listening to Rammstein. My life may well be complete.
TG #26 – Fall Out of a Hammock
No photo for this one, but at about 10 last night* I woke up when my knee collided with the concrete of my bedroom floor. Funny now, but didn’t half hurt at the time!
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TG #27 – Get Lost
Yesterday at about 3pm Harry and I got into a Jeep headed to Lethem to send emails, upload blog posts, sort out UCAS and buy a load of stuff. After 6+ hours on the back of the Jeep, we’d stopped to sling hammocks in Gawd-Knows-Where because we were thoroughly lost in the Savannah and it was too dark to try to carry on.
We made it to Lethem eventually, but I still don’t know where I slept last night!
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Happy World Teachers’ Day!
Happy World Teachers’ Day! We never celebrated this back home, but here it’s a big thing. I’ve had no lessons today, but instead a general assembly with songs, dances, poems, moral talks, etc, a big lunch with all staff and students eating together, handmade cards from students and even presents! UK teachers, take note: this is a tradition worth introducing!
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May Have Saved A Man’s Life…
This morning I spotted a snake beneath our head master’s desk. After catching it with a bucket and a broom, we confirmed that it’s known here as a “double headed snake” (because its tail looks just like its head) and its bite can be fatal… good job I spotted it really!
U Jelly?
I’m writing this as I lie in a hammock, strung up in the shade between two trees, listening to the creek calmly running by. I’ve got a very fresh drink of coconut water (they just chop the top off a fresh coconut and stick a straw in), for once the insects are leaving me alone, and the breeze is cooling me down nicely.
Just thought you might like to know 🙂
My view right now:
Apparently I dozed off!
House Guests
I’ve realised I’m becoming remarkably blasé about wildlife in my house… last night I found two lizards in my bathroom, this morning I spotted a decent sized spider watching me from my roof, and there’s a frog who lives in my shower (I call him Kermit). Oddly enough, none of these animals (or their many friends I’m sure are also in my house) bothered me in the slightest… only the lizards were evicted, and only because I don’t want them helping themselves to my mangoes!
3 Weeks into Teaching
I’m writing this sat in the shade of a coconut tree, watching the sun drop behind the mountain range that surrounds most of Sand Creek. No, really. Jelly much?
Nearly 30?!
A student asked me today “sir, you have children?”. I said no, I don’t, and asked her how old she thought I was. A discussion between her and her two friends yielded “erm, sir is nearly 30?”. Nearly 30?!?! I’m 18!
TG #4 – Organise a Cricket or Football Game with the Students
Easy peasy…
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