Many Positives but Internet Blues

The school's Internet connection is painfully slow so until we get a better connection updates might be a lot less frequent!

Loads of positives to report:

We have moved in to our new home and it is great, three bedrooms and a large living area.

We are being made to feel very welcome by everyone.

We have made an offer on a car which has been accepted. We are hoping we might be able to bring it back to Rehoboth after orientation. We rapidly realised that living here without a car was just not going to be very practical, so our ideal of managing without one went out the window!

The girls had their first day at school today and have come home positive. Jaydon is in a special needs class with a teacher who has a real heart for special needs as she has a 21 year old daughter with special needs. The fact that they have a budgie in the classroom has helped Jaydon! Courtney has been quite nervous about school, but for the moment I think has enjoyed being the centre of attention.

My first complete day of teaching has gone very well - the children are still children but there isn't the in your face type of challenge that has become the norm in the UK. I think they really appreciate being taught again as their teacher has just had an operation.

We will be going back to Windhoek for a week, on Friday, for orientation and then it will be back to Rehoboth in earnest.

Yesterday we went shopping - we were trying to find a shower attachment for the flat. Lets put it this way - I can now see why many of the residents of Rehoboth go to Windhoek to shop!

It is really starting to get hot here, but thankfully the nights are still cool. It is over 30 degrees in the shade and a lot hotter in the sun! Although there is no air conditioning the classrooms aren't unbearably hot - they really design them to take full advantage of the shade. At the moment around 1-2pm there are dust storms which aren't fun if you get caught in one. Everyone looks forward to the rains - sometime in December. I've been annoying Ruth by commenting that the sky is blue every morning but now that the clocks have changed and we are getting up for school at 6:50am it is dark so she no longer has to suffer!