Baby tortoise

Here is a picture of the baby tortoise that has been found where we are living.

28/5 9pm Martha

Final English school

After lunch at Berti’s house we paid our final visit to his English school in Rahovec. Eddie set to work on an article he is writing for ‘Reform’ magazine and the rest of the family helped with one to one teaching followed by educational games. We then went shopping and had a quiet night in. Tomorrow we are heading north to the mountains at Rugova

28/5 3pm Eddie

A bit of gardening

We visited the home of a widow and we dug over a small patch of earth in front of her house and planted some small plants. We hope that that she will enjoy them. It is not a big thing but sometimes little things can be important.

28/5 12noon Eddie

Evening meeting and meal

We went to a meeting at Eternity church where Eddie gave a short message and then we went out for a meal with Astrit, Emily and Hannah. Late start tomorrow morning so we get a welcome extra hour in bed.
27/5 10pm Eddie

The Fort at Prizren

We travelled back down the mountain to the town of Prizren which is the second largest town in Kosova and has much Ottoman architecture and history. The temperature has soared to 31/32 c. We climbed the steep hill to the fortress where the view was amazing. Ice creams were required when we arrived back at the bottom
27/5 4pm Eddie

Visit to school in mountains

High up in the mountains near Dragash we visited a small school where we chatted with the teachers and met the children. This area has its own type of language based on Serbian/Slavic rather than Albanian – this uses Cyrillic. In this area this is a different perspective on the war. Eddie and the boys played table tennis with the children and a teacher. We had lunch in the playground and a teacher gave us tennis equipment to play with. This village is very remote near the Albanian border and quite different to what we have experienced up to now. We gave the head teacher a bag of stationery and the letters and pictures from Orchard Schools

27/5 Eddie 1pm

Trip to the mountains to the Goran region

We made an early start and headed south via Prizren up to the mountains to the Goran. Initially the mountain roads were quite steep and scary but after a while we came to fields and rolling woodlands high up in the mountains – quite spectacular to look at.
27/5 12noon Eddie