Hello Brecknock! I hope you have all had a fantastic start to the new school year?! As you know I am away this term, volunteering with an education charity in Uganda, Africa. I am working with 8 schools that are spread across the Masindi district, just like our school is in the Borough of Camden. One of my schools is a 20 minute walk along a dirt road, another school I travel to on a motorbike, the driver is known as a ‘Bdoa Boda’. The rest of the schools I work in are at least a 30 minute drive from where I live, so I have to take a taxi to visit them. The roads are mainly wide, dirt tracks with many holes and bumps! When it rains here (which it does very often, and very heavily at this time of year) the roads get flooded and water-logged. Not quite the same as getting to Brecknock in the morning! The Ugandan people have been very welcoming and friendly, and they call me a ‘muzungu’, which means ‘white person’. When they say this to me, it is in a friendly way, so I say hello to them in their language (Runyoro) and introduce myself, then they just call me Beth. The schools here are very different to Brecknock as they do not have very much money to buy nice resources and repair their buildings. They also don’t have TAs, caretakers and dinner ladies like we do, so we are very lucky indeed! The teachers and children do share something in common with the teaches and pupils at Brecknock though, they are very passionate about education and strive to do their very best! I hope to update you again soon. From, Beth