So, since my last post, I have had the most AMAZING weekend! It was a long one because Monday was one of the 18 public holidays they have each year here (compared to the 8 we have in England!) We spent Saturday at the botanical gardens, which was so peaceful and relaxing. There is a beautiful rose garden,...
Friday, 28 March 2014
Friday, 21 March 2014
Our first week at school
This week has been super busy, teaching lots of lessons and also having classes ourselves. One of the highlights of the week was teaching cookery classes, in which we made shortbread biscuits. The school covers school years from pre-school all the way up to year 11, but every class got stuck in and...
Saturday, 15 March 2014
Settling in, in Bogota
Hello all! (Please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors, Spanish keyboards are weird.)
This week has mainly been orientation and finding our way round Bogota:
We arrived on Monday after a very long day of traveling. We made our connecting flight in Miami (but only just!) and were greeted by the...
Monday, 10 March 2014
At the airport
Just a quick one to say we're at the airport. Check in took forever, but the kind man moved Naomi and I to extra leg room seats for free! Had to unpack my bag again at security, but at least we have plenty of time. I'll try and update you when we get to bogota!...
Sunday, 9 March 2014
What will I actually be doing in Colombia?
Right, well I'm about to leave home but just thought I'd write a quick post to let you know a bit more about what I'll be up to in Colombia (or at least, what I think I'll be up to in Colombia - Latin America is similar to Africa in that plans don't mean anything and we might end up doing something...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
1 week till Colombia!
1 week to go till I’ll be in Colombia! It’s come round so fast,
I can’t believe we leave on Monday!
I’ve just come back from our Latin Link Step Team
orientation, and it has been an amazing few days. We started off on Wednesday
and Thursday with team leaders’ training where we looked at some of the
biblical principles behind good leadership. We...
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