When I was eight I moved to Nepal in January 2002. I have since been to Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Laos, Greece, Slovenia, Russia, Cyprus, France, Scotland, Morocco and Switzerland. I have driven through many more countries while travelling in Europe.

I love to travel and writing diaries about my travel experiences to inspire people to go travelling themselves. Travelling is such a worthwhile adventure and I would definitely say travel broadens the mind!

I will be blogging about a few of my experiences whilst abroad as I have recently found some old diaries. These are very old and were written from 2004 onwards (I was 11!) therefore the language is very mature.. not! But I hope you will enjoy them and find them humourous (as I have!)

In January 2012 I will be jetting off to the exotic islands of Fiji in the South Pacific, to volunteer as a teacher for three months. I am extremely excited but also quite anxious to be flying on my own but I can't wait! I shall be using this blog to write about my journey and all my adventures when I get there. Through writing about my experiences, I hope to inspire others, especially teenagers to get out there, explore and discover. There's life outside the UK and Europe!
See my blog archives to read more :)




Just a note to say that annoyingly with Blogger you have to begin from the bottom and read up!

I haven't worked out how to change this yet so that the oldest posts are at the top and readers would read in order to read the most recent post at the bottom.

So you don't get confused please visit the blog archive which begins at 2011 and goes down to 2013 so that you can read my blog in order.

Hope this makes sense, thanks :)

Monday, 21 November 2011

Fiji ~ More about Ratu Meli Memorial School (RMMS)



Here's some more info about the school I will be volunteering at.

The Ratu Meli Memorial School is a Government School run by the community committee. It is affiliated with the Fijian curricula, so the classes are in English. However, because most students do not speak English at home many of the children are quite shy about speaking English and have a vocabulary less developed than children from the mainland.

There are currently 125 students enrolled at Ratu Meli Memorial School, both boys and girls, from class1 to class 8. The students are from the villages of Nacula, Naisisili, Navotua and Malakati on Nacula Island. Due to the distances between their home village and the school, almost 50 students who attend RMMS board at the school during the week and live with the school's eight teachers.

(Taken from the Fiji Education Training Manual, written by GVI)
http://gvifiji.blogspot.com


I will be assisting local teachers when it comes to teaching basic subjects as well as supervising and interacting with the children. I will also help struggling students by giving them the one-to-one attention they need. I may help to run workshops for English, Maths or other subjects, such as Arts and Crafts, in order to create an enjoyable environment by motivating the children.

The long term aim is to make children confident, help them get up to level required for them to pass subjects and to improve their spoken and written English.

My Daily Schedule

06:30 - 7:00            Breakfast
7:00                        Load boat and get ready to deploy
07:30                      Departure
07:55                      Arrival at project site
08:00 - 15:00          Teaching at assisting in classrooms
12:00 - 13:00          Lunch
15:00 - 15:50          One to One teaching (not Fridays)
16:00                      Depart from projects to base
16:30 - 19:30          Lesson planning/Base chores/Free Time
19:30ish                  Dinner

Young girl studying at desk at Ratu Meli Memorial School.
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Location: Yasawa Island, Fiji

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