In the last two-three weeks in kenya, i participated in a youth day in Mombasa, i was facilitating the football side of things which ended up on a twenty on twenty football match when there was only sixty people there! i also built a school from wooden poles and mud! it was really good fun, when they said the village was abit out of community it was 1 hour from malindi by bus and 1 hour by walking through the jungle!! it was very good fun and very messy! Had my end of programme interview where i got 5 goods and [View Full Entry]

---

---

Howdy everyone! ive been very busy these last couple of weeks to manage to get time to get onto the internet!! hope everyone is doing fine and dandy. Im having a fantastic time at work, in the week leading up to my birthday, i learnt how to do an indian head massage! well i attended a course for the introduction to an Indian head massage, but thats good enough huh? Do not expect one when i get back by the way!!! For the last two weeks i have been going out and doing outreach work in the local community. During thsi [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hi, finally managed to get to an internet cafe in Malindi, first of all Happy birthday to Dad again. Good to speak to you earlier. From last Sunday to Thursday i was in Mombasa doing my in-country-orientation. I learnt some swahili, kenyan culture etc. We were doing the training on the beach front!! Had our first taste of kenyan travel, going round in a mutatu, which is like a bus driving by boy-racers! quite an experience haha. We spent all day traveling to Malindi from Mombasa where i got alot of pictures of the amazing scenery inbetween. unfortunatly the internet is [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hi everyone, sorry for taking so long to update the blog, i know you have all been asking my mum what im doing, ive been a very busy boy. Il start off by telling you of the open poetry night in a pub's function room called sammy does. The team and i were invited by my host family to attend a night out to read some poetry. Only down part of that was we all had to write our own material and then perform in front of each other and strangers, up on stage. As i am staying with the host, [View Full Entry]

---

---

Week one After a gruelling 5 hours on the coach from Birmingham to Glasgow, we arrived on a rainy and horrible day at Glasgow's Tramway. I was greeted by my host family, Colin, Irene and Paul, who greeted me very warmly and made sure i felt right at home straight away. Sarmad and I were driven back to the house in Colin's van/home made caravan(!) in record timing according to Paul! When we arrived, i looked acroos the road and saw a golf course, looked at the front garden which is actually part of the graveyard they live in! The house [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hello all, today i had a very long and exciting last day here in raining Birmingham! I started the day at 9am sharp, starting with another cross-cultural lesson. We learnt all about the comfortable space for our Pakistani counter-parts and them likewise. We also made posters in partners and what we are happy to do such as share our stuff if they ask and what not to do such as borrow our toothbrushes. This sounds like it shouldn't really be have to said but we have two very different cultures!! We then went on to study a case study that happened [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hello All, i've decided to make as much use of the computers while iv'e got them! I started out the day finding out what makes us, us. We did it in an onion sort of way by putting ourselves as the middle and putting in the layers of what made us, with the closest one the most important and the furtherest one that had a brief touch. We then broke for lunch. After standing by the food for almost 5 minutes deciding on which meal i might like the least, the dinnerladies took pity and made me a cheese omelete :). [View Full Entry]

---

---

Today i turned up at Halbourne Hall at 10 thanks to my parents, who drove me across from Market Deeping early morning. I met the rest of the U.K volunteers, for both the Glasgow and Manchester placements. To start with Charlie ( Manchester helper) got us to do some team-building exercises, so we got to know each other names. After this we started to do a welcome plan for our Pakistan counter-parts. We decided to write and perform a song for them, and make a poster. I decided to make the poster as im not much of a song-writer!! After lunch [View Full Entry]

---

---