Although rainy season is over it still seems to throw it down every day or so which is nice as it makes it a little bit cooler. We are slightly jealous of the English frosty mornings that you guys are having there.
I have worked out how to get the photos small enough to upload (nothing over 1 Meg seems to work here) so I have attached the ones for the last blog entry as well as some new ones.

This is a photo of our team minus the team leader and his family (they have been in Germany having a baby but are back this week). This is the most beautiful beach you can imagine – white sandy beach, sparkling turquoise sea, palm trees - it is an hour’s drive away but worth it on your day off!

We had the opportunity to attend a friend’s wedding on Friday which was a great insight into the culture here. The guy getting married lived in the flat next door to the place we stayed with a local family when we first arrived. Alex and Julie were also invited as they knew him as well. The men first went to the mosque for the ceremony in which no women were allowed, (not even the bride!).

This lasted about an hour and we didn’t understand much as it was not in English. We sat

around on the floor and drank some coffee and ate samosa’s and some people said some prayers at the front. Now that they are married the men then went to the bride’s house, where all the women were, to pick her up. This was where Paula and Julie should have been while we were at the Mosque but they got lost and then were stopped by a police man for doing a u-turn so they ended up missing that part of the celebrations. In the end they came back to the Mosque and followed the men to the Bride’s house where they were ushered inside to have their photo taken with the bride. This seems to

be a tradition. The bride sits in a bedroom on the bed and everyone takes their turn at going in and having their photo taken with her.

The photos show me and two guys from the family we stayed with outside the flats before the wedding, the wedding car arriving at the brides house and the Bride and Groom at the brides house (the bride traditionally wears green on her wedding day).

I have also included a picture of me and my first catch (an octopus) using a spear gun whilst snorkelling on Saturday.

In other news, Paula has had traditional Swahili henna on both her hands and feet, which I’m not too wild about but it’s all about getting into the culture!!