Week three update

The school pretty much shuts down over the holidays.

This week has been half term, which means we've been able to stop and get our bearings a little bit after having jumped right in to life here.  At the weekend we stayed with Steve and Jo Grove, helping out at their Friday youth club and being generally abused by their two young girls.  They've been here for around 10 years and have seen many come to faith through their work in the youth club, which is amongst some of the poorest children in the area.

Since then, we've been back at school and trying to keep busy.  Matt has been planning lessons for next half term - he'll be teaching bits of secondary English and IT - and Lou has been devouring novels and catching up with people in the UK.  We've both also taken advantage of Hilary's cable TV (beamed straight from South Africa) and have witnessed England get knocked out on penalties (again) and the Brits to surprisingly well on the first few days of Wimbledon.  To be honest, we can't wait for the kids to come back next week.

We did, however, witness a quite spectacular car crash.  We were behind a car who slowed down to turn right but, as it did so a car attempted to overtake us (and about five cars behind us) and smashed into the car turning right.  Luckily no-one was seriously hurt, although the driver of the car turning right was very shaken up.  This has reminded us of the dangers we will face while traveling along the roads here.

On that note, we are leaving for Nsobe game park on Sunday, and will arrive back on Tuesday (Monday and Tuesday are publi holidays here) for the start of school on Wednesday.  We're looking forward to this, as we'll be going with a group of the younger staff from Amano, and so we're hoping to build relationships as well as see some giraffes.  Please do pray for safety as we make the three hour trip there.

Thank you all for supporting us, and for many of your kind e-mails.

Matt and Lou