Back to School

Back to school, and preparing materials and pictures about this LINK venture. The whole experience has been so strange, so different and educational for Carol. Small things, such as the perpetual darkness of night, solar panels for charging the cell phones, boiled water for drinking tea, things we take for granted so unimportant in Umtata. A different world in a different time. The problem of downloading camera photos and sending them on to blogger delays the blog, but it will be instructive to a wider public eventually!

TXT SMS CELL MOBILE

Returned home and found things in good order. TXT from Umtata possible as cell phones common and recharged from solar panel electricity. They adopt the SMS and Cell phone description, longer description to follow. Getting back from one world to the familiar - it is astonishing.

Coming back Sunday

Returning to England on Sunday 27th August Bank Holiday. School holidays end and school begins first week of September. Txt home to check everything okay. l am looking forward to seeing family again. Report back to LINK in due course.

Photographs of Carol's African school

The Link Community Development, registered charity 1048007

www.lcd.org.uk


The Link Community Development is a group of four partner NGOs based in the UK, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. LCD's education projects in Africa focus on school management and leadership as well as teaching and learning issues. The Link Schools programme links UK and African schools. LCD Global Teachers Programme focuses on a five week placement for UK teachers in South Africa or Uganda. Global teahers return to the UK to use their experiences to informa curriculum enrichment and school policy in their own and other UK Schools.

The Mandela Museum in Umtata

When Sir Harry Smith was in East Cape

snow in South Africa 3 August 06

Snow falls in South Africa as the US swelters in heatwave - World - Times Online

Times Online August 03, 2006



Residents play in the snow in Clarens, South Africa (Gabby Nel/AP)

Snow falls in South Africa as the US swelters in heatwave
By Elsa McLaren and agencies

Heavy snow has fallen on Johannesburg for the first time in 25 years as South Africa faces some of its harshest weather conditions for decades.