Monday 25th - Thursday 28th - A week of planning, painting and an English lesson

Although Monday's are normally our day off, because we have quite a lot of work to do and planning to do as a team, we are taking advantage of the time when we are together and planning our projects. We spent Monday morning at the library finalizing our plans for the English lessons and the pre school. It was a productive day and we headed  home for a chilled out afternoon.

We managed to get started on the preschool this week, armed with sand paper and sugar soap we prepared it for an afternoon of painting the main background sky blue colour which we managed to get done in a couple of hours on wednesday.

Wednesday was the day of our first English lesson with the Ethembeni staff. We had 16 members of staff and it went really well. We took the lesson under the tent outside the family center with two small children's blackboards and some chalk. We had the chance to find out a bit more about their levels of English and to see what they wanted to get out of the six week course. Many of them can speak fairly good English and can understand basic conversations but they need help with their tenses and extending their vocabulary. I am really excited for the other lessons, it will be interesting to see who does their homework!