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About this Blog From January 2005 Anna and Tim were working as Link Teachers at G.S.Muhura. Then from September 2006 until November 2007 Kersti (a VSO volunteer) was teaching/working at G.S. Muhura. This was also the beginging of VSO's involment with G.S. Muhura and Global Education in Rwanda. This blog will feature postings ranging from the visits of staff and pupils to both schools, to more personal accounts of the things that happen to the Link Teachers. You can leave messages for public consumption for them on one of the message boards, or for private communication email: lb4432@henrybox.oxon.sch.uk

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Teachers' Rwanda Blog

All the entries in the teachers' blog:


12 Feb 08
Arrival
Project running

4 Nov 07
The guys from Great Lakes Energy putting up the solar panels. - Click for more... Solar Energy comes to Muhura!
And brand new technology!

4 Nov 07
Taba Primary School
I went to the school, just down the road on the way into the centre of Muhura, to find out what life is like there

13 Sep 07
Visiting Coffee cooperative. - Click for more... New term!
Last term for us at GSM and first for you!

11 Jul 07
Star Struck!
Life in Kigali!

19 Jun 07
Life in Muhra!
Just a quick update

14 Jun 07
- Click for more... Tim and Anna's farewell party.

28 May 07
GS Muhura News
Our last edition of GS Muhura News

21 May 07
GS Muhura News - our newspaper ready to download!
Please remember this news paper is on African time!

7 May 07
Silverback - Click for more... Holidays!
The most amazing country from a tourist point of view.

27 Mar 07
Holidays!
End of term here in Rwanda.

20 Mar 07
- Click for more... Filming for Comic Relief!
Exciting day being part of something so big!

10 Mar 07
Going to the South.
My birthday!

21 Feb 07
- Click for more... A wonderful visit!

8 Feb 07
Our last day at GS Muhura School
The Rwanda team spend their final hours with staff and students at GS Muhura School in Rwanda

7 Feb 07
Lizzie, Lucy and John de Dieu entering Muhura's market - Click for more... Photos!
Some photos of our visit to the market and the work we have done with the english club in the afternoon.

31 Jan 07
Life at the end of January.
School is slowly getting going.

4 Jan 07
Global Curriculum Project- Year 7 music
Music project comparing British national anthem to the rwandan national anthem

17 Oct 06
Cow Dancing - Click for more... Messages from Muhura have been posted!
Last few weeks of Term.

10 Oct 06
Cleaning of GS Muhura - Click for more... The Presidents Visit to Muhura.
First photo's added!

12 Apr 06
Link Club sing at our first leaving party - Click for more... Link Teachers return to UK
MF remains as ambassador to Muhura

26 Mar 06
The sun sets behind the plume of smoke coming out of Nyiragongo's crater - Click for more... Gisenyi and Congo visited
And GSM narrowly beaten by Muzungu United

12 Mar 06
Full-swing rainy season demands appropriate equipment - Click for more... Term, and Link Teachers’ time in Rwanda, draws to a close
One more week of teaching before exams begin.

25 Feb 06
Packed into Robert's landcruiser - Click for more... Teachers return to Kigali for Christmas Card Competition. NEW INFO ADDED
Internet almost comes to Muhura, but not quite

13 Feb 06
Wow! - Click for more... Alex's report
Alex's personal account of his week at Muhura

13 Feb 06
Audience at our first puncture - Click for more... Anna and Tim’s Blog
Second Reciprocal Visit a great success

4 Feb 06
Evolution of Anna's ICT teaching: - Click for more... In Kigali for Alex's arrival
Preparations for second reciprocal visit complete

21 Jan 06
Teachers get to grips with ICT resources after lessons - Click for more... ICT teaching begins
Computer lab functioning well at 80% of full capacity!

13 Jan 06
MF has a scratch - head not really this small - Click for more... Back to Muhura
Long hoped-for reunion with MF causes much excitement.

9 Jan 06
Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru, both in Tanzania, as seen from the plane - Click for more... Return to Kigali NOW WITH AERIAL PHOTOS!
Blog-silent holiday season ends

1 Dec 05
We are back
And our luggage should be arriving any day now

29 Nov 05
MF - we will miss him - Click for more... Return Imminent
Assuming snow has not prevented plane taking off from Brussels

21 Nov 05
Tim and Roger at the start of a vigorous walk around Muhura - Click for more... Lawrences in Africa.
Tour of great lakes region experiences only minor technical difficulties.

2 Nov 05
Shoe and bicycle repair in Muhura market - Click for more... Phase Five reaches Cusp Of Success
Holidays beckon as visitors set off from UK

25 Oct 05
Gerald shows Steve how it's done on the dance floor - Click for more... Phase Four a Great Leap Forward
Teachers return to Muhura for Exam season

20 Oct 05
The new, fully functional satellite dish - Click for more... Phase Three (of a projected Five) Completed.
Visas still tantalizingly out of reach as teaching ends.

18 Oct 05
Downtown Kigali from Kigali Business Centre - Click for more... MF Drama rocks Muhura
In final week of lessons

12 Oct 05
The inviting facade of the Rwanda Revenue Authority - Click for more... VISAS II
Wrath of the bureaucrats.

8 Oct 05
Muzungu United and Gahini FC salute the crowd - Click for more... PK joins us at Jambo Beach
Link teachers complete unintentional warm-up Presidential meeting

7 Oct 05
Anna and Inga play the - Click for more... A Walk Too Far
Legs still poorly three days on. NOW COMPLETED AND WITH MORE PICS

26 Sep 05
Rainy season misty valleys en route to shop - Click for more... Manasi's House Visited
Visa Game Rejoined

25 Sep 05
Roof nearly on - Click for more... His Excellency President Paul Kagame to Visit Muhura
Rough date set for dignitaries' visit. NOW WITH MORE PHOTOS

11 Sep 05
Tim team teaching a first year physics class with Tharcisse - Click for more... Kigali visit for shopping and barbequeing
After a busy school week

6 Sep 05
Stumpy the footless African pied wagtail - Click for more... Seasons role around
Signs of changing times abound round our way

30 Aug 05
Anna explains how to extract cheek cells - Click for more... Prompt start to new term
Link teachers go bak 2 skool

18 Aug 05
On our way to Amohorro Island on Lake Kivu - Click for more... Holiday Tour of Rwanda draws to a close
Jon Wolton packed off to Nivrobi

30 Jul 05
Team bus arrives - Click for more... Jon Wolton Arrives in Rwanda
Legs ache from football but blisters all healed

23 Jul 05
The road by which we descended from the Muhura ridge - Click for more... Musical Collaborations and Country Hiking
R&R finds its way into marking week

14 Jul 05
Our second choice football pitch feels the bite of the dry season - Click for more... Appointment with gorillas booked
Unscheduled Kigali visit permits butter purchase

14 Jul 05
- Click for more... GSM-HBS Partnership becomes a DFID Global Schools Partnership
Successful bid enables future short-term teacher exchanges

8 Jul 05
Anna returns to our newly electrical abode - Click for more... New Era Dawns
as we are hooked up to the GSM grid

2 Jul 05
A game of frizbee begins with the primary school beyond - Click for more... Holiday Weekend sees summer start, while Jez and Liv leave us
Micro-update from Nyagatare NOW WITH PHOTOS

25 Jun 05
Anna's baking prowess continues its heavenward trajectory with this banana-and-whisky effort - Click for more... Dry season struggles to get under way
as Jez and Liv arrive in Rwanda

21 Jun 05
Anna, Isa and Tim relax as the clean-up begins after the celebrations. More photos to follow soon! - Click for more... Wedding in Ndatemwa
Weekend in Muhura enlivened by motor-bike ride to local festivities

14 Jun 05
The 2 teams (and 5 different strips) pose before kick-off - Click for more... GSM score 3 goals!!
Unfortunately Muzungu United score 6

10 Jun 05
Lake Muhazi from Jambo Beach with Weaver Bird nests in the foreground. - Click for more... A tale of two football matches.
Nigeria v Rwanda provides warm up for main event.

5 Jun 05
The Incredibles - each one has their own special power - Click for more... Livin’ in Muhura with Bryan Adams
Music proliferation and much dot interaction enabled by quiet weekend in Muhura

4 Jun 05
Tim's Birthday present from Anna (very expensive) - Click for more... Cake and Fanta Party Declared a Success
Teachers survive Anna's baking as Tim's birthday officially ends

24 May 05
Anna's phenomenal special-plum tart, code-named - Click for more... Birthday Week draws to a close
Link teachers rest after busy times

23 May 05
The experimental appetizer stretches his legs before dinner - Click for more... Extreme Cooking
Grasshopper cuisine saga

13 May 05
The Operating Theatre - Click for more... Jigger-tastic!!
Anna survives surgery in the field (well in Pheneas’ backyard) – includes gruesome photos!!

13 May 05
Tim's home made chess board - Click for more... Other news
Non Jigger-related news of what we've been up to this week

8 May 05
The first Banana Pie (shame about the lazy eye) - Click for more... Living in Muhura Update

25 Apr 05
Haircut, and sandals repaired
How to feed two people and a cat for less than £3 a week

25 Apr 05
Cookery news: this 'cake' became much more palatable when re-imagined as a very large biscuit - Click for more... Teaching recommences in earnest
However weekends not so busy

18 Apr 05
New term gets underway gently
Absence of students eases holiday-work transition

9 Apr 05
Keith is measured for whale shirt at Kimirongo market in Kigali - Click for more... Introduction of Woltons to Rwanda successful.
Anna's parents head home after action packed two weeks.

22 Mar 05
Not as striking in real life, but vapour rising from a spoonful of carrot and corriander soup glows vividly green and orange (really!) - Click for more... Term ends
Kitten mourned

15 Mar 05
Tim and the boys read Guardian Weekly - Click for more... Chief of the courgettes and well proportioned shrew feel descructive force of growing kittens.
Well done Matthew!

9 Mar 05
Anna and Inga prior to departure - it's chilly at 6am - Click for more... Moto Scenery
Views from the road home.

7 Mar 05
VSO teacher Peter demonstrates science can be fun by igniting a balloon filled with propane gas - Click for more... VSO Workshop a Success and Work Permits Obtained!
Just the visas still to go

4 Mar 05
VISAS: the story continues
Teachers back in Kigali for more workshoping

28 Feb 05
Tim at the VSO regional workshop - Click for more... Link teachers take part in VSO workshop
Kittens seem pleased to have them back in Muhura

20 Feb 05
The Muzungu United and G.S.Gahini teams - Click for more... Kitten Shock
Visa, football and pizza all pushed to sidelines as small cats dominate proceedings

17 Feb 05
Tim plans for the morning lesson on the back step - Click for more... Thoughts on country life
Proper spell of living and working in Muhura prompts reflection

4 Feb 05
Tim teaches - senior 6 students perform a titration (note francais sur le tableau noir) - Click for more... Teaching now well underway
but absent official prevents visa success

29 Jan 05
She waffles but we love her
Anna's version of recent events (you may have read some of this in an email from me, but it's worth sifting through to find some new, and in my opinion, rather interesting bits.)

28 Jan 05
Bureaucracy
Puts slight dampner on end of first week of teaching

24 Jan 05
Anna revises her French and chemistry simultaneously! - Click for more... Internet in Muhura
Teachers log on at the Lycee. NOW WITH MORE WRITING AND NEW PHOTOS!!

14 Jan 05
Tim with likeness from ice-breaker session - Click for more... VSO ICT completed
Teachers now fluent in beginners' Kinyarwanda

7 Jan 05
Anna in creative mood, by parrafin light - Click for more... Settling In Period completed
Teachers return to Kigali for training

2 Jan 05
Plan of our house - Click for more... Joyeux Nouvelle Annee (Sp?)
Christmas and New Year spent in Kigali, successful living in Muhura in-between.

24 Dec 04
Celeste poses with the first turkey to meet its end: clearly we did need two - Click for more... Merry Christmas!
For Turkeys, Date with Destiny is 24/12/04

23 Dec 04
Ready to leave Tom and Jane's - Tim appreciates comfort provided by new matress - Click for more... Teachers move (briefly) to Muhura.
Our house is finished, and filled with our posessions - NOW WITH VIDEO.

17 Dec 04
The first turkey egg - Click for more... Enough for an omlette
Turkey lays second egg in three days!

16 Dec 04
Mzungu United and Circle Sportif pose before kickoff (spot the attractive goalie in the hat - added by Anna) - Click for more... Anna devient francophone (?)
Tim se charger de tout – mais pas pour beaucoup de temps! NOW WITH MORE PHOTOS!!

16 Dec 04
Turkey lays egg!!
Egg found in turkey house!

11 Dec 04
View from the road to Byumba - Click for more... First visit to Muhura
Anna and Tim stay with Rev Pheneas and family, meet many friendly people, and see their new house.

7 Dec 04
Rendez-vous with Rev Pheneas
Anna and Tim find the Chinese supermarket, Rev Pheneas and Santa all in one afternoon. NOW WITH MP3!

6 Dec 04
Anna is left slightly soggy by poorly timed departure - Click for more... Acclimatisation continues apace
Teachers successfully catch buses and only get really wet once.

1 Dec 04
Dawn over the Thames estuary: Anna less worried than she looks - Click for more... Arrival
Now with pictures!

28 Nov 04
Goodbye Oxford
Anna & Tim say goodbye to Dreaming Spires and Betty Sproggins




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