It's Sunday night and I'm sat in my lounge with my left foot up on a pile of cushions. In my first proper game of football in weeks this afternoon I twisted my ankle badly trying to keep a lost cause ball from running out for a throw. I gained us roughly 4m defensively and put myself on the sidelines for the rest of the game.
I'm now bandaged up and I've got a crutch to help me get around. Hopefully it'll be better in a day or so.
We had a barbecue for tea tonight. One of the families from the Gambia had brought up the best part of a pig with them at mid term break as a gift for the school. Tonight we ate it in kebab form with a great Korean marinade.
It's been a nice weekend. Yesterday I went with one of the teams of kids to Kiniabour for 'Saturday jobs' where we did some more digging at the kindergarten project. When I returned to school I had my debriefing for the year with Bob & Dee and we went through the evaluation form they send off to WEC UK together. It was very encouraging. It was also good to chat a bit more about next year and my role.
On that subject, I found out this week that I'll definitely be teaching science next year. In the first term it'll be just key stage 4 (IGCSE - 14-16 yrs) and in terms two and three I'll teach KS3 too (11-14 yrs). I'll still be a general helper which means I'll have a full time dorm role too, probably in Eagle dorm again, especially as we'll have new inexperienced dorm parents for term one.
Last night was a 'dorm movie', we watched 'High School Musical' with just the Eagle kids in the dorm lounge. It was very cheesy but amusing in places (although utterly cringeworthy in others).
Church this morning was good and for the adult ministry time we heard from Jim & Paula Hanes, missionaries from Louga, up north, who are here on orientation with their kids, Amanda & Aaron who will be joining the school as full boarders from September. It was really interesting to hear first hand about how evangelism works amongst the Wolof people and the work that the team in Louga are doing.
Ulrike pointed out tonight that tomorrow is my last day off this year and asked how I'd spend it. I hadn't realised and doubt I'll do anything unusual. I'm actually very tired, I've not slept enough the last few nights.
Hopefully I'll be able to enjoy my day off despite my probable lack of mobility.
Writing about last night's film reminded me of Friday night when I watched 'Short Circuit' with some other staff. I can't have seen the film in the last ten years but I must have watched it tens of times as a child. It was great to see it again and similarly many of the other Brits have equally fond memories of the film. I saw much more adult humour which I'd missed as a child and some great malapropisms from Ben, the asian character. One of the most memorable lines though was one my brother and I would often quote after watching it: "Hey laser lips, your mother was a snow-blower"; I still don't
get it though. Now I need to track down the sequel, I remember that one being even cooler.
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