Planning and spiders...

Welcome to another blog........its been quite busy at school as we have 3 teachers off,two are sick and one has a sick child. Also one of our cleaners is also off to work in her garden. So out of 9 workers we only have 5 and its been hectic for the teachers who are present.

Fidelis is a young man who used to work with World Relief in Chitipa and is currently studying at African Bible College. He is on holidays at present and has been volunteering with us each morning helping in the toddlers class. I am so thankful that he has been with us due to lack of staff! Here you can see some of the toddlers singing a song and doing the actions!!

I am so proud when I look at this picture of our 3-6 years classroom. It is hard to believe that its the same place as 3 years ago when I arrived. Children are all busy doing something to aid their development.
Nicolas is a young man who is doing his work experience with us. He is currently studying for a Diploma in Montessori Early childhood Education through Montessori London. It is tough as he is doing it by distance learning. However, so far, he is doing well and I am looking forward to having a qualified Malawian on our team.

This is Lumbani deep in concentration as he syringes water from different containers - good for building muscles in the hands and fingers!!

On Thursday I was attending a workshop for the Education Department Strategic plan. It was really good - all departments presented their work (including me with Early Childhood Development). Here you can see our facilitator Martin who is from the Netherlands and works in the Synod as Capacity Building Officer. He is with my colleague Happy who works in accounts. All the paper stuck on the board behind are part of our plan!!

And this is Vincent, one of the project officers with myself as we do some group work!

Drama again in my house on Friday night - saw something moving across the wall and it was a visiting tarantula - it was enormous - the door frame below the spider is 5cms wide and the length of the spiders body is 5cms! Sorry to say it is now late!! I didn't fancy sharing my house with it!

Yesterday I had a friend here for lunch and she brought a German volunteer with her who wants to spend a few days volunteering at school. So.......God is good - he provides when we really need help!

Wishing you all a good week.

Blessings

Diane