Induction and first day

I was woken at 5am by singing and although I was aware of Cape Town's Muslim community, I didn't realise there was a mosque just next door. Something I will just have to get used to!

I managed to get a chance to write this on Monday Afternoon and the wind here is crazy. Imagine the hottest day of the year in the UK and the windiest rolled into one and that's about how it is here.

At 9:30am myself and Marjam were escorted to the Projects Abroad office in Newlands by Alex and another of his colleagues. We crammed into a local minibus and arrived a Wynberg station to travel north a few stops. Aaron met us there for our induction. Aaron is from Nottingham and landed a job at Projects Abroad straight from Uni. Newlands is a nice area of town and he bought us lunch. I also purchased an SA mobile phone and sim card. My number is 0720650131 (although you may need to add +27 to the start of it, I'm not sure).

Here is a picture taken from the car journey back to Parkwood:



Following this I was driven back home to Parkwood and to Hyde Park Primary School. This is just at the end of our road and I will be able to walk there in a couple of minutes each day. I met the principal (Mr Jurgens) and he, like many others here, was more interested in talking sport than education. My school days will start on Tuesday at 7:40am and the children leave at 2pm.

Following this I returned home to try to digest all the info and myself and the other volunteers stayed home playing pool.

Bye for now!