18th January

18th January
Morning at school went very well – after prayers out on the balcony with the little ones it was back to the classroom. We did a mixture of things today – from sitting round the their desk (children all sit round one table) reading to them from a story book that has pull out pages, this is one of the books I had collected, along with many other bits and pieces for the school. Children appeared to enjoy this as it was new and something different. Then Prospere the teacher set up a swing in the middle of the play area within the classroom, and they loved this. It was soon break time – a much welcome cold water drink for me. We have been having some very heavy showers and today was no exception. The atmosphere was very oppressive making me feel so lethargic. However this is soon forgotten when playing with the children. The two teachers and I play with the children a great deal as this seems to help with body movements. I finished work at 12.15pm today to enable us three volunteers to be taken back to the hotel to enjoy the school band give a concert. The older children play in this band and I must say they are exceptionally good. The Dunnottor band has been going for two years, it consists mainly with steel drums and percussions . The concert went down very well and afterwards the children are given lunch in the hotel.