Good morning my friends from Chilcote!
(Here we say "Mwaramutse" to greet each other in the morning - pronounced "Mwara-moot-say"! Can you say it?)

I've been living in Rwanda for a few months. The government decided to make the school holidays here a lot longer, because they are trying to build a lot of new classrooms all over the country, so that more children can go to school. So all the children were on holiday from the end of October until the start of February! Can you imagine that?!! But sadly, it meant that I couldn't visit them as they were all at home helping their parents work in the fields and looking after their little baby brothers and sisters and cleaning the house. Is that what you like to do during the holidays?

Now the children are back in school, for the start of the new school year. They've been back in their classes, and some in their brand new classrooms, for 2 weeks.

So here are some photos that I think you will enjoy, to show you what the schools are like here in Rwanda.

I'll ask the Rwandan children to answer your lovely questions very soon!

Do you have any more questions about life here in Rwanda?

Love
Libby