Will's time in Kiribati, 2010

Ok, it seems I'm a little behind.

Thursday 4th Feb - Sunday 7th:

Teaching. I got the figure wrong, it's seven classes a day. There are nine periods in a typical day, each of 45 minutes. There is half an hour for lunch. I think I prefer being a teacher here rather than a student, given that that way I get an extra 90 minutes off!

On Friday evening I headed over to Tareroke, whose name I still can't pronounce properly, to the MSC house where the friends I've made over the past two weeks are. I had a good cruisy weekend there, heading back on Sunday. While there, I saw a great movie called Kung Fu Chefs, about... Chefs who do Kung Fu! It was great! I recommend it to anyone who likes simultaneously cooking and leaping through the air kicking people (five stars).

Monday 8th - Thursday 11th

Teaching, 7 classes all days except one, when I did 6. I only do two on my own, for the others there is another teacher in the classroom at the same time (Had a maths dream last night- very odd- numbers jumping up and down. Don't maths teachers go crazy? Maybe they are crazy, and you just can't tell. Speaking of which there is a student in my class whose name is pronounced "sanity".)

Tomorrow (Friday 12th) I'll fly to Abemama for the weekend, an Island where the MSCs have a school called Chevalier College. I know a family there who have come to teach for six months.

I decided to do all my washing today before I went away. Then it started raining. I was quite happy, because this was good news according to "Will's theory of Kiribati weather prediction". This states that:

"If it is sunny, it will soon rain.
If it is rainy, it will soon be sunny."

(The weather varies so much here, that early in the trip it was raining steadily on one side of the house, but not on the other- there was 10m distance between the two sides).

However, would you believe it my theory which has been in the making since my arrival, was disproved. It rained all day non-stop. Late in the afternoon I started to give up on it going sunny, and started wondering what I'd do since all my clothes for Abemama are wet. I discovered that someone had very kindly hung up all my washing under cover, and it is now all dry(ish). Hooray!

Wow! This really is a blog- dreams, film reviews, the laundry and everything. You'll think you're reading the Women's Weekly! Stay tuned after the weekend for some horoscopes.