Sorry Blog fans, we have been on the move again and have been very slow at updating the blog.
We have left Goa for Pune curtesy of a overnight sleeper bus. Like the name states it's a bus you sleep on. They have taken all the seats out of the bus and built compartments with beds in. The only problem is the bed was too short for David and he's not even that tall!! The roads were very bad and as we went though the mountains they seem to speed up for the corners. So after a night of very poor sleep we arrived in Pune in the early morning.
In Pune we are staying with another Brazilian couple. When we got over the initial luxury of MacDonald's and other fast food places such as pizza hut and KFC we decided we best do some work so we went to the school in Rupee Nagar, a slum area on the outskirts of pune. This school was set up by an Indian and his wife as there was no other English speaking christian school in the area. The school is now supported by the charity AdoreIndia (run by the couple we are staying with). It has now been open for 3 years and the school is growing every year, there are now 360 pupils!
Our duties at the school have included leading morning worship we even managed to teach them a new song (we should point out that most of the children don't speak English!!!) and they taught us a song in Hindi. Zoe has spent some time training the teachers as the teaching in this country is very different! The schools are like those from the Victorian era . As long as you have a good memory and lots of patience you'll be fine! David has taken to the nursery class especially because none of them speak a word of English so it is almost guaranteed they will find his jokes funny! The tiger impression has been a great hit, even managing to get the crying children (of which there are many) to pause from their wailing to wonder what this strange white man is doing! As art and craft is done very rarely here the excitement of making paper lanterns was barely containable, especially the boys!
Not only have we been he;ping with the education of children but we have been practical as well. Due to lax health and safety regulations in this country David has rewired the computer room and put electric ceiling fans in all the classrooms - it should be fine unless they need to user the computers or turn on the fans!
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IMPORTANT NEWS!!!!
Fixture list is out for next season. Highlights are:
that other Cambridge team - home, 3rd October; away, 13th March.
Chester City - home, 20th February; away, 5th September.
Wrexham - home, 21st November; away, 27th March.
And Luton (?) for Boxing Day and New Years Day.
More later.
hey guys, really good to catch up with your comings and goings. We can appreciate what you are going through, the lanterns look great, such enthusiasm!!
MORE IMPORTANT NEWS!
The Ashes has begun!
What a start - England won the toss and it was going oh so well. That is until before lunch on Day 1 - bit of a revival later on but then the bowlers did not a lot. (Freddie stayed fit which was possibly a silver lining - may be out with a sore knee for the second test...)
And then there was a bit of rain which took out a session at the end of Day 4.
So a crescendo on the final day. The last 40 minutes were Monty (number 11) and Anderson (number 10) surviving to merit a draw!
Such joy for a non-win, and probably saved by the rain.
PS Aussies are sore losers - something about time wasting.
Next test on Thursday!
I've had to take a cut a few days short as they have star cricket here and they are showing the ashes!!! It was a great finish to the match.
Histon have beaten West Brom and drawn with Northhampton preseason and sadly Cambridge have sacked their manger!
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