24.03.10

I’m on my break and have come back home. Sitting outside in a shadow with the laptop. No movement in the garden, probably they’re doing something inside or having a siesta :)

Our morning began before seven - cleaning and washing. Since I had a longer break I thought i’d come back here to spray the rooms with the bug-spray. The whole week we’ve been thinking of doing it but somehow never managed.

I wouldn’t say that mosquitoes are a big issue here, or the diseases. Surely there are cases of malaria and some diseases tend to spread when you're not careful, but people here are tidy. They have really clean homes. Of course, the children are messy. Since there’s no asphalt.



Around here and it’s still the dry season, it’s dusty and the dust gets everywhere. Normal that the children are not shining :)

As i’ve already had a bit of a chance to get to know the school system here, i see there’s a lot to do yet. I personally would prefer private teaching for a couple of students - that would show the results better and the progress would be bigger. Unfortunately that’s not possible.

It’s hard to adjust to 40, 50 or even 60 and 70 students' needs and level. The smallest class here has 30 students, the others are at least twice as big.

The saddest thing is that they all use the same textbooks for English from grades 5-8. In older grades they’re supposed to study the subject just deeper. No one else except the teacher has the book. Even if only the teacher had the textbook, but a different one for each grade, the lessons would be much more diverse, interesting and built-up.

Will see now if i can continue the cleaning :)

Huggles;)



Some hours later…



Kell on 22 aegu õhtul ja lõpetasime just kirpude uputamise. See on päris lõbus, sest muidu oleks siin lihtsalt liiga hea elu. Uputasime koos kooli direktori, tema naise ja Adanega, kes eile meil oma vennaga õhtustamas käis.

Nüüd saame veel paremini aru, et siinsetel inimestel polekski aega teleri või interneti jaoks: )

Kuna eile passisime terve päeva kodus, siis mõtlesime, et täna lähme linnapeale. Läksime koos Adene ja amhaariku(kohaliku keele) õpetaja Tiringo poja Natiga. Käisime ära postkontoris ning kauplesime turul. Väga kaua seal aega ei veetnudki, vaid läksime edasi koolidirektorile Wondele külla. Ma ei suuda siiani ära imestada, kui hea naine tal on: )

Milil on jälle kunstiline hetk. Täna oleme ühes voodis, vaidleme. Hiiglaslik ööliblikas pläterdab mööda tuba ringi. Lükkasime voodi keset tuba ja minu moskiitovõrk on ka laes. Mitte küll meie pea kohal, vaid hoopis väga kunstiliselt kägaras ja nutsakuna laest rippumas. Mida hetkel veel tahta oskaks?: )



It’s around 10pm now and we just finished with drowning the flees. It’s quite fun, otherwise the life here would be too good. We dined with the school’s principal, his wife and Adene, who had supper at our house last night.

Now we understand better, that people here wouldn’t even have time for television or the internet. :)

Since yesterday we spent the whole day at home, we wanted to go to the city today. We went with the amharics (local language) teacher’s son Nati and Adene. We went to the post office and to the market. We didn’t spend too much there, went to the principal’s house. I still admire how good his wife is :)

Mil has an artistic moment again. Tonight we’re in the same bed, also arguing. A gigantic moth is flying around. We pushed the bed in the middle of the room and we have the mosquito net hanging from the ceiling. Above us, it looks rather artistic : )

What more could we want now?: )

L.