End game

Definitely getting on the end game now. I am still going round chasing up the last of the assignments for the visual impairment module. It is the last day of the summer term today, so I hope to get most of them, although one teacher preferred to come in on Monday and do the whole thing then - which means I probably will have to be her blind subject, wandering about with a blindfold... I had some good news yesterday, one of the teachers does sewing and showed me a tracing wheel which works really well as a pin wheel for making tactile diagrams. So we now have a low cost local version, using a piece of polystyrene as a mat (cut from the bottom of a fast food box).
My downstairs VSO friend is taking a few of us for a meal tonight - I have cooked her loads of dinners so this is her way of repaying. This will be a posh job, I will put on my long frock! But we can't be too late as tomorrow morning we have a birding trip with our local friend, so we are getting picked up at 5.15 am! On Sunday my landlady has a yard party (with caterers) at lunchtime, which is to celebrate her return to Guyana after being overseas for a long trip, and two of us leaving. I will read my poem there, it is easier than making a speech. I will also organise a bit of dancing - before we get stuck into the lunch. Monday night is a leaving meal for the World Teach volunteers to which I am invited.
I read my poem at choir last night, and told them how much I have appreciated their friendship and support - they have really been a family to me.