12.12.13 Thursday. Dutch visitors

The charity had received an email from a Dutch lady, Daisy, asking to visit a local school, so we went this morning to collect her and her husband, Renee from their hotel.  They had brought many items for two schools on the plane with them.  We first went to Nemasu where they looked around the school with Mr Sallah whilst Steve and I unloaded the items they had requested for this year.  We stayed through break time watching the children eat and then play with some of the new items, toy cars and skipping ropes.  Each class was doing exams until break time and they had been able to observe quietly as the pupils answered the written questions or in the case of class one, practised their handwriting skills.  We then moved on to Sukuta Lower Basic school where Mr Sallah teaches in an afternoon.  The headmaster here was very grateful not only for the items brought by Daisy, but also the boxes of books which we delivered.  We toured 4 of the classrooms, but were disappointed not to see any subjects being taught; apparently they had finished exams this week and so were ‘resting’ nothing happening, very strange.  We dropped Daisy and Renee off at their hotel and then we went down to the beach to Poco Loco for lunch.  Back to the storeroom, to load up for tomorrow, and then home.  We had just arrived back when Faith rang to see if they could drop in later this afternoon. They arrived later and we spent time having a drink and a chat in the garden before they headed off back to Kololi and we retired early as we are setting off early in the morning.