Teacher Ali, Teacher Ali!!!



Agnes, one of the Artists!




John Kenneth the artist of these flowers!



Simon, the little rascal who just got in the way!!



The girl in the green tshirt is the one who was working as a prostutute! She is 13 and her name is Ida, she loves teacher Ali!!



The girls love a cuddle!

You just can't get away from the champions league!

Justine is the little girl next to me! Dreadful pic of me!

Olyotiya!! (This means how are you in the local language)

Hannah (the fellow volunteer) and I have been learning a few words from the locals and are quite impressed with our repetoir so far, but yesterday I was getting a bit confident and starting shouting Baby Baby Baby, instead of Stop Stop Stop when we were on the local bus!! this caused much laughter for the locals and us, we were laughing so much we had trouble hawling ourselves out the back of the little mini vans which serve as the local buses! they crowd as many people as they can on to these buses so not good for those of us who don't like small spaces!! Also yesterday we went to the country club where all the expats hang out which was a real treat, there were flushing toilets and proper showers - we made fill use of the facilities before heading home.  We decided to get a boda boda back to the bus stop ( a boda boda is a motorbike which a local lad drives) both Hannah and I sat on the back - can you imagine 2 girls on the back of a motorbike with no helmets at home - we ended up being on it for ages as the driver misunderstood what we said, however we have perfected the art of saying slowly slowly when on the back of a boda boda, otherwise they can be quite scary!!!

Today we are under house arrest!! We've been told not to leave the house, the election results are announced today and they are a little worried there may be some trouble, but I'm sure it will be fine! So we sneaked out down to the little internet cafe shack for some internet therapy!

You will see some picutres above of our painting on the wall at Jolly Mercy! To be fair we hardly did anything, the kids did it all, they were so excited to be involved particlarly a couple of te kids who were just fantastic at drawing. The kids are on holiday until Thursday but there are about 40 kids who are boarders so we are going into the schooll on Tuesday to do some more painting with them. They kept saying Teacher Ali Teacher Ali we want to do more painting! I'll post some more pictures of the finished masterpiece later in the week.

Anyway, better sign off now as my time on the internet has nearly run out (it's taken nearly and hour and half o do this post!!) thats Africa time for you!!