First of all I am going to teach at the Nkhata Bay Boys Boarding School which surprisingly is in Nkhata Bay. I am over the moon with this placement as Nkhata Bay was on my shortlist of places to visit. It is located on Lake Malawi (obviously, as it has the word Bay in it)... and the pictures are stunning! Interestingly I have spent all this time trying to get away from the Isle of Wight and I have been placed right on the water again - maybe this is a sign for the future? Anyway...According to Matt (my country manager) it has some of the brightest students in the country and as it is a boarding school I will be involved in extra curricular activities. I will live in the teachers quarters with running water and electricity. This reassures me a bit as the thought of not being able to charge up my camera really worried me! I have Wikipediaed the area and it says that they have at least one internet cafe - this means that I can update the blog and talk to my friends on Facebook now and again during my time out there.
My "partner" for the placement is a guy called Anthony who is Irish. Without saying too much about him (as he can read this as well) he seems awesome, did a degree in history and politics so I will have to gen up on my Irish politics before I go! I will now apologise to him in advance for all the annoying things that I will do in the next 6 months.
So basically I am REALLY happy with the placement, I have got a beautiful location and I have been placed with a guy with common interests. As I come to the end of this post the enormity of what I am doing has just hit me... I am going to travel 4,900 miles and attempt to teach. It's going to certainly be an experience... Thankyou Matt for the placement and of course thanks to Lattitude.
33 days to go...
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