Wed 27 Apr Southern campus today, I remember to take my camera. On the way I stop to snap the ladies at the tea stalls outside the hospital; the early morning sunshine softly illuminating their tobes. I arrive at college 20 minutes before class, the way I like it. I find the caretaker and made sure my classroom is unlocked. It saves having a last minute panic and it alerts the students that I have arrived. I go around to the back where there's a tea lady called Howa. It has become a ritual for me to come here for a coffee (with ginger) and donuts before first lesson. This morning I put the order in and go off with my camera. I want to capture the feel of this place. It reminds me very much of my first school, also in Africa; probably built about the same time from the same colonial blueprint. There's also been some lovely yellow laburnum blossom of late though this morning it's pale and unlit.
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