Hey all :)
Just a little update on what we've been up to over the last week...
We're feeling very settled here now - the other teachers and staff feel like family and it's hard to believe we've only been here just over a week. Many thanks for birthday messages for Rachel, I had a slightly strange birthday but it was really fun too. We spent the morning shopping in Nakuru, which turned out to be quite stressful as we only had about 1 hour 45 mins to buy everything we needed to set up a home... A little different from when we spent a day zapping things in John Lewis for our gift list! We managed to buy quite a lot of stuff though and got a computer dongle, which means we have unlimited internet in our house and have skyped some friends and family already, which has been lovely.
After that we had a cup of tea with the headteacher and his family, and then the deputy head hosted a party for me... pretty amazing as we'd only arrived on Thursday morning (my birthday was the Saturday)... People are so welcoming.
Since then we've been in crazy amounts of meetings... pool safety, fire safety, child protection, boarding house duties, games coaching (Rachel's teaching rounders once a week, and Dan's teaching juggling!), departmental meetings, full staff meetings... the list goes on! However... we're feeling pretty prepared now for the start of term and excited about meeting all the kids tomorrow.
We've got time off next weekend so are hoping to go to lake Baringo with some other couples to see some of Kenya, but we don't have a car yet so have got to work out exactly how that's going to work out.
Well anyway, do let us know what's going on where you are.
Many thanks for all your support and prayers - we're feeling very blessed to be here.
Sending lots of love,
Dan and Rach
xxx
PS afraid we're not quite sure how to get told about updates. I think if you change settings on your google account it might let you know... sorry!
Hey guys, I have finally worked out how to do this (but my normal pictures wouldn't upload so sorry its just an ostrich for now!) I texted you the other day then thought you probably can't get it since you were leaving phones behind.. but I told you that we had a great time in Corsica and we didn't bring the pop up tent but they turned out to be the thing to have.. so many people had them! So not such silly thinking after all Rach! I'm glad it sounds like its going really well so far and that they are being very welcoming. Its great to get updates :) lots of love x
ReplyDeleteOh and did Jan tell you Amy ended up getting into Newcastle(her first choice)? Remark showed she had got the A!
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