I just got a parcel from home! It took about two weeks ( arrive), and it was a bit damaged, but it was so nice to get some sweets and jam from home; I've been dying to have some of my favourite sweets, and it's always nice to get mail.
So I've been here in the jungle for about a month now. My secondary school is a bush school. The classrooms are made of bamboo, clay floors and roofs of grass. It takes me only a few minutes to walk to school down a dusty track (cover) in weeds. When Ireach the school grounds, I'm greeted by a chorus of"good morning"from the boys. Unlike students in our country, these boys do not wear cotton uniforms, and many of (they)also have to walk a long way, sometimes for up to two hours, just to get to school.
There's no electricity, running water or even textbooks. All the students have are pencils, rubbers, and paper. I'm still trying to adap t to these (condition). I've had to become much more (imagine) in my teaching. Science is my most (challenge)subject as my students have no concept of doing experiments. There is no equipment, and since there isn't even washroom, if I need water I have to carry it from my house in a basin! It's important not to be too rigid about rules here, too. The other day I was showing the boys a chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling out of the test tube spilling everywhere! The class (become) a circus as the boys, had never come across anything like this before, started jumping out of the windows.
