Living quarters


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Africa
May 2nd 2010
Published: May 3rd 2010
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our room is between the first and second pillars from the left, kitchen is the outhouse to the left and then the church is just to the right of where i'm taking the photo
I am staying at the local parish just a few hundred metres walk from the school where I’ll be based. The parish is a house next to the church with room for 8 people or so; at the moment there are two fathers, new to the parish, young and with lots of ideas for change, 2 German boys teaching german and sport at the school and then myself and Jamie, a community officer employed by the British NGO tied to the school which aims to introduce micro finance businesses that will enable the school to be self sufficient in sponsoring it’s own pupils through education. It is a very quiet and peaceful area, at a dead end and so no passing traffic and at the moment all the schools are on holiday and there are very few people around. It is a very comfortable place to live, with a veranda around the front with comfy chairs to relax in, a western toilet and even a shower (even if it is cold and dribbles). There is a dining room with sufficient crockery to go round, plus a table of condiments, plus a fridge, kettle and toaster! attached to the dining room is a sitting room with TV and then the cook cooks in an outhouse round the back and does the washing up in a backroom.

There are chickens, ducks and pigs at the parish though its the cockerels that make themselves known especially in the mornings - thanks to the heavy rain they’ve been quietened off recently!
it is a very rural area, with lush hills, where folk bring goats and cattle to graze and small local villages all around so we’ve been walking a fair bit exploring the paths, meeting students working at their homes and today we had a game of poohsticks down the path which was more like a river!



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3rd May 2010

I love your description and can't wait to see photos...I know you're taking lot of them ; )

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