Day eight - relaxing by the pool and in the sea ... If only!

We are about to leave for stone town ... So being unsure of the wifi status tonight I thought I'd update you now.
I forgot to mention the visit two the slave market yesterday ... Students were horrified by the conditions slaves were kept in and the stories of the traders ... But it was incredibly interesting to get such a detailed account of what happened and to see the dungeons where 75 slaves were kept ... Packed in and starved for two days with no water to see who was tough enough to be a good worker ... Then taken to the whipping post where they were whipped in front of buyers ... Those who didn't emit a sound went for a higher price than those that did ...barbaric treatment, not just by foreign, mostly Arab traders but also by local people who got in on the act ... So many died during the process ... A real lesson to us all of the way man can treat his fellow man.
Many students got up this morning to see the sunrise at 6.29 ... Which led to a science lesson on why it was light before the sun was up ... I have my uses :-) ... Then some students wanted to go in the pool so instead of going back to bed like any sane teacher ... I stayed and did my work emails, sorted some photos for the blog (when I get good enough wifi) and read for a time ... John Cleese autobiography 'so anyway' ... Thanks Nick ... It's great, but unfortunately it's getting a bit battered in my rucksack (sorry).
The students had a great morning ... Swimming in the pool and the sea ... Although, despite lots of encouragements to get factor 50 spread on exposed flesh ... Some students have burned ... Some even failed to put on any sun team despite lots of warnings! Hey ho ... Not a lot more we could have done.
I have also visited the local doctors surgery twice this morning for minor cuts and sea urchin spine wounds ... Dec and Brandon cut their feet quite badly running into the sea, Becky C had a less serious cut and Zac had sea urchin spines in his foot ... Dec and Brandon are walking around like war wounded ... Zac who had to have the two spines cut out with a scalpel was incredibly brave
throughout the procedure and is stoical when walking ... Top bloke. On my return, I found that Olivia had stepped on an urchin whilst getting out of the sea ... So I had to go back ... Fortunately her one short spine came straight out and she didn't have to go through the ordeal Zac did ... His spines were about 5 and 7 mm long .. As you can imagine the students had been banned from the sea as two visits was more than enough! I did finally manage to get a swim just before lunch ...
Lunch was great ... More marlin, chicken stew and chips/rice with mango/water melon for afters ... Just waiting for our African adventures leaders to rejoin is from photographing the project they work with here in Zanzibar so that we can head back to stone town. Hopefully I will be able to add to this later.
Best regards for now,
Mr L