work experience

Recently the high school students got to try out a job on the ship for a weeks work experience. We were going to write a blog to show how varied and cool some of their experiences were but it seems Estelle has done that for us :-)

For lots of photos of Tommy's students at work around the ship see:
http://estellesmiles.blogspot.com/2011/05/work-experience.html

Happy (American) Mothers Day!

Tom has learnt to email, he went to the internet cafe by himself this week and sent me this:

Happy mother day I know it is amarcon but we can still selbrat.

I Love you

Love From Tom Farrell

So lovely! I'm all for celebrating all Mother's Days, I only wish my Mum was a bit closer to celebrate with her too. So Happy Mother's Day Mum. Again :-)

boys making fire

One of the fun things the boys got to do at the beach was help make a fire and watch Raul gut and cook some fish for our lunch. I can't say I understand it, but there is something about boys finding playing with fire fun! I enjoyed eating the fish so it was good all round! Thanks Raul!

 They collected sticks

 then lighted the fire

 and poked it a bit while the fish cooked

and then we ate it with rice and mango :-)

a day off school

Unfortunately the teachers still had to work, but the rest of us enjoyed a day at the beach with some lovely friends. It is such a contrast driving through the busy, dusty streets and then arriving at a deserted, beautiful beach. Here are some random pics from our day:

 The view of a banana islands

 completely empty :-)

 I took some pics of these grasshoppers for Tommy as he wasn't there to take them himself!

 The place to come for relaxation!

Josh covered in sand

 Photo of a random lump of wood, knowing Tommy would have tried something like this if he'd have been there!

 In case you think this is some kind of perfect holiday destination - the toilet was just a mounted seat sitting directly on the sand and there were only 'walls' on two sides. Still it was clean and I could only see one person while I was sitting and he looked pretty busy doing something else. Haha

So it was a fun day relaxing and playing with our friends (thought it best not to put pics of other peoples children in their swim wear on here, so take my word for it they were there and we had a lovely time playing together!).

another dress up day

Life has been quiet lately, not much blog worthy happening. Most of us have been sick and really not doing very much. Tommy is working all the time in preparation for the accreditation, which is now this month! Sarah is still having major taxi troubles getting to and from work, but the problem has changed from taxi's being late to not coming at all. So nothing exciting really, but the boys did get to dress up as a character from a book:

Tommy: Mr Sneeze from the Mr Men
Tom: Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars (his fav book in the school library!)
Josh: a generic Knight, just because he wanted to dress up and take his new sword to school, made kindly for him by one of the other Dads to protect his princesses :-)