AN AFRICAN ADVENTURE

Monday, 23 December 2013

Christmas

Before I left to come back to the UK for christmas we had a christmas party at the Academy for the staff and the boys. Some of us made christmas hats beforehand to really get into the spirit. The boys loved the party and would have carried on dancing until the early hours if they'd have been allowed.

CBF Christmas Party:

An afternoon on the Moors at Haytor

Haytor, also known as Haytor Rocks, Hay Tor, or occasionally Hey Tor, is a granite tor (or rocky outcrop) on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in the English County of Devon. The views are pretty incredible from up the top - if you're brave enough to climb the hill in the gale force winds you usually find there. I have memories of climbing the Tor from a very early age but never get bored of making the climb to blow the cobwebs away.

What a term..

I promised to keep this updated so family and friends could hear all about my adventures without me repeating myself all the time and boring people with the same story so firstly I'll apologise for breaking my promise. Unfortunately the heat in Sierra Leone fried my laptop and I was unable to use it so initially blogging was difficult anyway and could only upload photos on my mobile and then Tumblr decided to log me out and refuse to log me back in. So new look blog with all the old posts on it and I hope I do better with my promise next term!

So its now December and I've been back in the UK for about a week now and it still feels very strange to me. I've missed the end of summer, autumn has passed me by completely and without the run up to Christmas I am struggling to get excited now I am back. If we had some snow I think I would be better prepared but the wet, cold, windy and miserable weather is just annoying.

I'll try and write about two things that stand out the most from my first term to give you an idea of what I have been up to over the last few months but I'm sure I will probably forget something else important so I may do another recap at a later date.

Dentist Day
My first term out in Sierra Leone was pretty eventful to be honest. The first major event has got to be the dentists day held at the Academy. This in itself would have been pretty hectic but when you add a medical emergency it becomes pretty terrifying, particularly for someone new to the country with very limited knowledge of local hospitals or medical centres!