nearly home.

Well, I'll be back on Saturday morning, hopefully to some dry weather.

I did some maths training at a local primary school tody but the rain was coming down by the bucketfull. That wasn't a problem, I had my raincoat and umbrella, it was the flooding in the road. It turned it into a river and the only thing to do as to hitch up my skirt and wade ankle deep through the red muddy torrent. The nice thing is that you dry out quite quickly and the rain is warm.

We have been to the beach several times this week in the evening and I have been wave jumping again with Kofi and another little three year old boy who was convinced he could swim.

I do hope the weather is kind for the journey across the estuary to the airport on Friday evening. It takes half an hour on the open water and won't be fun if we have another of those violent storms tat keep coming and going.

I'm looking forward to coming home and seeing everyonebut will miss it here again.

Signing off, Pat

Weekend in the provinces.

I went up to the provinces with Miriam and Kofi to do soe training on phonics for the primary school at maronka. we stayed in the village and they put grass mattresses and mosquito nets up for us in one of te clasrooms. The mattress was quite hard. It didn't stop me going to sleep I was so tired out. I was creaky in the morning but up at 6:30. Used the loo which is a hole in the ground and washed in a bucket in the little washouse they had constructed next to the loo block. then had a lovely breakfast of boiled cassava and meat spiced with oil. the meat was a kind of small deer, sad for the deer but very tender and tasty. Lots of Miriams waifs and strays live in the village and the chief treats them like his own, also numerous with three wives. the generator had broken so we used torches but it was really nice sitting outside with a totally black velvet sky.

we went to the beach this evening and I had barracuda and chips but it is locking up time for the computer room so will go now. Back next Saturday.