Day 1

After 3 planes and a 13 hour bus journey I am finally here!
Yesterday I moved into my new room in the volunteer house which I share with another volunteer called Sarah, who is a peace corps volunteer and has been here for just over a year now. With my mosi net up and a quick de-bugging of the wardrobe I was then given a quick tour of the village. First I saw the playing field then onto the school where I was introduced to the head mistress Maisy who took me into the school where I met some of the children mid lesson. Next I was taken to the library which is pretty impressive and consists of two floors, I learnt that an after school program has been put in place where the children can come and take out books or have books read to them or play educationalo games on the computers. Final stop took me to the Caiman House where I am told a lot of people like to hang out.

After some much needed sleep I sat in on a librarians meeting (my room mate Sarah is the head librarian) where they discussed whether goals were met last year and what this years goals would be, we also discussed projects and topics that maybe I could get involved with. It was decided that for the first few weeks I will shadow the librarians and see what topics come up and just generally get a feel of how things are run here. Then in a few weeks time we will have another meeting where we will discuss specific things I can do.

Today I sat in on two lessons in the library where a group of 5 year olds and a group of 6 year olds come and listen to a tape to help them learn maths, I got to help the children if they were having any problems. Later I will be helping the librarians set up the classroom upstairs for their after school program, which will consists of story reading and computer stations.

Hopefully later when my camera has charged I will be able to take a walk around the village and take some photos.