One month in...

I can't believe how fast time goes out here!! Esp. the past week - due i reckon to our initiation of about a million and a half after school clubvs!they tend to revolve around standard 6 (our class) but others always end up joining in. Mondays is art club ( now you all know my talents are not especially geared in towards that direction!) but we're hoping to paint the school buildings in a couple of weeks with them - not too much detail needed there :) Tuesdays is recorder club - nightmare! 50 recorders in 50 young childrens hands = at least 100 painkillers for the rest of the week. But the plan there is to get them playing national anthem which they sing every morning before school. Wednesday afternoon follows tradition of sports:Tennis,football (one guy has a Wednesday Shirt!!!!!!!),netball,general games etc. Am in the process of organising an inter-school tournament and a local wood-carver is making us a wooden world cup as the trophey!. Trying to get the netball team to play more of the real game and less of their rugby version but not going to plan so far..its a prettyy good workout though. After their big exams we're going to have a sports day (obv including all the classi egg and spoon, sack and 3 legged races :) ) Thursday is extra english..anyone want a pen pal?my little group are desperate to make friends with english children. And we finish off the week with choral harmony..well progressive harmony would be a more accurate term, but they can just about get Londons burning in tune now! So another week has flewn by. We;ve met loads more gappers this week from the US-a little standoffish but really nice after a few drinks :) Am getting more an more into Bongo Flava - Tanzanian 'clubbing music' - pretty awesome! I'm not too impressed that the rainy season has arrived a little early. Its incredible though - going from boiing heat to tennisball sized raindrops , thunder thats mroe like an earthquake and really long sheet lightening. Last night we were sat out under the stars (also stunning in the 'big african sky') when one began - the lightening lit up the sky for miles. And the leaves of the banana trees outside our house make the best umbrellas!