• We are now getting used to (and quite enjoying) using metaphors during a challenging conversation. Many locals seem to go for this approach so it [...]

  Metaphors for challenging conversations

  09/06/2015
• I had a little chat with a year 1 teacher during a school visit this week. I know this teacher a bit, we had team-taught for a little while (she [...]

  Money motivation… sad face :(

  24/05/2015
• The past few days of ‘agriculture school’ has been like ‘Backyard Blitz’ getting ready for the lovely couple to arrive. [...]

  Here they are!

  16/05/2015
• These are Dan’s first batch of home-made pork sausages in Gulu – they tasted amazing! Pretty excited to add these to our diet here [...]

  Home-made snags!

  13/05/2015

• Yesterday during the church service the preacher (an elder) shared during one of his many tangents that he and most men love their wives 20 per [...]

  Men love their wives 20 per cent

  11/05/2015
• Yesterday afternoon I almost ‘gave up’ on Africa. In the morning I had quite an encouraging meeting with the head of primary at the National [...]

  Almost giving up on Africa

  06/05/2015
• A little over three weeks ago I posted that the agricultural training was about to begin, so… it has begun! In my opinion, we have [...]

  Three weeks in…

  02/05/2015
• I recently posted about a weekend of training nursery teachers. I wanted to share a few things from the weekend… Here’s a few [...]

  ‘I had to humble myself to come…’

  27/04/2015

• ‘I thought reading was something that came down from heaven and over time we just got. I didn’t realise you could teach reading. [...]

  You can teach reading? 

  22/04/2015
• I am training some nursery teachers this weekend, but this training has been organised a little differently. Here, I have found that nursery [...]

  Schools working together, taking ownership

  17/04/2015