Now I am sat in the sun waiting for my host family to pick me up! It's so exciting! Found out my host home and counterpart, I'll be working for FASCOBE with Dache, which is a radio station that helps women and children (I gather from what I've been told!) I'm going to be living with Rawllince who seems like a real character, with a pastor! Should be interesting!
Tomorrow we will meet again as a group and are having a meal by the lake which I'm really looking forward to!
... Wow, I'm here! He has 2 kids, 7 and 4, I have just met one of them, she seems quite shy! I am the only white person in the house - must be quite weird for them!
Their house is nice, it's alot like back home! They have a housekeeper who lives here. She carried my bag up, I couldn't even lift it! I offered to help but pastor Walter said 'no she will do it'.
I was talking to Rawllince about his family and what he does. He has 2 younger brothers whom he supports as their parents died when they were young. It's shocking to me but they just seem to take it so well. It's definitely alot more common here. So sad though. He was telling me how he is a teacher for primary school, and I was shocked to hear that they still use the cane! He said otherwise children won't learn respect and won't do as they are told. I was explaining how in England we have very different ideas about punishment of children!
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