I think I'm probably one of the laziest people in the group when it comes to updating this blog, but what's the need, normally Joel says everything I ever want to before I get there anyway!
So I've (and Dan, who kindly accompanied me) spent the morning in a lovely (read appalling) Ghanaian hospital before discovering I have a mild bout of malaria - we always knew one of us was going to get it! The hospital was such a bureaucratic nightmare you had to take about 8 tours of the whole building just to get anything done. Nonetheless, I can't complain, 5 hours wait isn't really so bad, and the doctor took great pains to show me the World Health approval on all the needles! There were a ridiculously large number of women and young babies in the hospital, all who looked far sicker than me (and I'm pretty sure I was ushered through much quicker than them). So, now armed with a vast amount of tablets I'm all ready for our trip to Bolga tomorrow (after which Joel, Dan and I are going to Ougadogou in Burkina Faso for a few days! It's all very exciting!
School is also going well, although I've been getting so frustrated with the differences in ability in my class - It's impossible to teach 20 kids - some of whom can't read a word and other's whose reading is perfect!) it just means that invariably half my class are bored (and therefore behaving terribly) all the time! So, for the summer school that we're putting on for them next week I've come up with a solution that will hopefully solve this. The stronger (re: smart) kids will be coming daily from 8-10, and the weaker (re: stupid) kids will come from 10:30 until 2! I'm really excited about this plan and really hope that it'll make some difference. I've also decided to hold half of my class back (10 kids) to repeat the year - I honestly don't know what they've been doing all year because they can't do simple addition or multiplication, and when they are reading they think that every word that begins with c must be cat, and every word that begins with f must be father! It's very infuriating!
Well that's enough of a rant now - I'm actually really enjoying myself and despite the malaria am loving africa!
xx
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