Sunday, October 26, 2008

Inspectors, packing and more packing!!

Hello all again! Hope you all had a good break! I haven’t had half term really. We had two days holiday earlier for Eid al Fitr which celebrates the end of Ramadan (a Muslim festival). We are also having a day off next Friday (Halloween!!)

Last Monday we had a visit from 6 lady inspectors. They arrived at about 8am and stayed with us for the morning. They were all dressed in traditional African attire, complete with headdresses. They wanted to have a good look at all the paperwork that we had in place, and also had a quick visit of the classrooms. They asked me a variety of questions, and then recommended that we bought a stack of their books for recording things that happen in school. They stayed for snacks and then took their lunch away in take out boxes! It was rather a strange morning, and I felt very uneasy…not knowing what to expect! Some of the ladies were very jolly, and they reported back to say that the teaching was good, and the school was very colourful and well-organised. They are due to send their written report after about 3 weeks. Yet another new Nigerian experience for me!!

I am writing this surrounded yet again with packing boxes!! We are moving to a bungalow later this week. We hope that we will start the move on Thursday, and complete it on Friday. There is still quite a lot of work to be completed on the bungalow, and we are hoping that the main things will be done before moving day!

Our new bungalow is on a large compound, and is surrounded by garden. The best thing about it is that it is so quiet! Our apartment where we are at the moment is on a very busy road, which is noisy 24 hours a day, which sometimes gives us disturbed nights…so we are really looking forward to some peace and quiet. There are also lots of mature bushes and trees in the garden which attract all kinds of birds and butterflies. I will take a lot of photos so that I can include these on my next blog!!

We have a new IT teacher at our school, who is busily working on a way to get us able to email you in Holton le Clay. I hope that we can set this up for after our Halloween break. It will be great fun to be able to write to you directly, and for you to do the same.

That’s about all for now, as I still have a lot more boxes to pack (I really don’t know where all these things have come from!!) Hope you have a Happy Halloween, and I look forward to hearing from you really soon!

Lots of love, Mrs. Sanchez xxxx

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