A beach clean, a boarding school and a hair cut

As the title suggests this last week has been fairly busy. Last week we started planning our mid phase review, which is a weekend away in Lindi. Working in teams in any setting provides challenges. Let alone when you are working with people you socialise with, live with and do everything with. Then just to top it off we come from different working cultures and have our own agendas. However despite these differences and the challenges of the last week I really feel like the Mid Phase Review is looking great and will be a success. The weekend revolves around group and personal reflection on the development of the project and on our own personal development.

Unfortunately not much teaching happened last week, this was due to the school elections which managed to somehow take 2 full days. Our involvement in the election for some reason was counting students and then supervising the counting of votes. However Sam and I did realise that one of the vote counters was in fact also a candidate. All very bizarre.

On Saturday we all participated in a beach clean which was great fun. However immensely hot. The level of rubbish on the beaches here is insane. In Tanzania in the beaches there is an average of 7 discarded plastic bottles every metre!!! Anyways the beach clean certainly gave me food for thought for my action at home. How well would a clean on the banks of the severn go down?? Post the beach clean we had a very chilled day at Southern Cross followed by a lovely long walk down the beach.

Sunday certainly goes down as the day of the week however. A trip to the tailors in the morning was an experience. The tailor really couldn't grasp that Maria and I weren't married. However I do now own a great new shirt. In the afternoon a few of us sceptically went with Sam and Santos to visit  a boarding school and entertain the children. It turned out the kids were lovely and loved us making fools of our selves. They were also very keen to show us their songs as well. All must have gone down well as we have been invited back next week.

Today I risked a hair cut and I am still alive and have even had some compliments.

Thanks as ever gl