teaching in south africa

Here some impressions of the last couple of weeks:
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After being back from swaziland for almost 2 weeks I am getting back into the groove of everyday life more and more. Rainy season has started and we are getting quite a lot of rain. The weekend was beuatiful, i spent in on the beach just chilling. but just in time for monday morning it started raining again- bad timing beacuse it made me wanting to stay in bed the whole day.
because that was not possible by any means i decided to give myself a soft start and stay in the office today and send these vollies to school alone.
I realised that whenever i am there they are not really showing any initiative and i guess they don’t have a lot of confidence either with me watching them all the time. so i decided to send them off alone a bit more.

I am missing the steffis a lot though! they left a massive gap in my chintsa life. it was so nice to have these lovely girls around and now they just left. crazy how fast they were gone. they are not happy at home and we are in touch a lot. but still…i miss them.

In terms of health i am feeling a lot better now. i went to see the dermatologist again and he was happy with what he saw. i still need to use some creams and stuff but i am getting better here, touch wood.

Mike will get back from Turkey this week and then i will soon ahve to decide what will happen to me in the nearer future. i have the possibiliy to stay here and work for mike or buccaneers. i could as well go home by christmas or just leave chintsa and go travelling around southern africa.
i don’t really know what i want at present. the volunteers would be the main reason for me to stop working here, but then i don’t want to leave the schools and kids.
it’s confusing to decide all the time. i feel like everytime i take e decision another one is waiting for me already…hm. but i am not complaining…i am glad i can choose so freely.

This weekend i had visitors from back home. Peter and Marie- Claude came to see where i live and love :). it was fabulous to show them around the schools and my little paradise village. I think they enjoyed their stay here.

That’s the news for now. I am looking forward to these days of sunshine and warmth starting soon…please consider SA as your christmas holiday destination :)!

that's very strange to say this, but the paradise place named chintsa has suddently become hard reality now. after beeing away for 10 days, this is my home i had to return to and my job, the kids in school ... [Continue reading this entry]