I arrived in India in the early hours of Tuesday morning and after a quick look around the new school, took the morning to settle in to my new home. On Thursday I was welcomed to the school by Kohaly who I last met 5 years ago in the temporary shelters when she was in the nursery! We then had an assembly with dancing and question time from the pupils. there were lots of interesting and well thought out questions including what differences did I see in the people and the village in the 5 years and what were my favourite fruits and foods!

The children also had loads of questions about Shetland and I can't wait for the 2 schools to connect up again.

Friday was a holiday for Ramadan and so Sam and Lizzy tookn thy if and their children to visit a mangrove conservation area and to the beach at Poomahar. It was great fun and I learnt a lot about mangroves from the very knowledgeable boatman. Do you know how the new trees grow? I do now!!