1. Christmas 2014

2. Hallo and Greetings from New Jeshwang Lower Basic School How is everything in England? And how is the weather with you these days?

3. We want to start by thanking you for the money you raised for us We think you are very kind. We are going to use the money

4. The dry season is here now and it has been nearly a month since it rained It has also been unusually hot but it starts to get colder as we move into winter – may be 30 degrees at midday but only 18 degrees at night.

5. And these are Gambian oranges. Can you see they are green? Many fruits are now in season. We are buying some bananas to eat

6. Hallo and Greetings from xxxx Lower Basic School How is everything in England? And How is everybody at xxxx Primary school What fruits and vegetables can you see? There are green oranges which grow in Gambia and “orange” oranges from Senegal. There are bananas, pineapples, tomatoes, green cucumbers and fat white cucumbers, onions, potatoes, cabbages, gourds, water melons, red and green apples, sweet chaff and green lemons.

7. The bananas taste delicious. We wish we could send you some. I have peeled the oranges and squeezed the juice into a glass. It tastes good.

8. We will celebrate Christmas here too and we are making some paper chains to take to school to decorate our classrooms. We know it will be Christmas for you soon.

9. And at school we have been making Christmas cards to send to you We are colouring them in and we are going to post them to you. We hope you get them.

10. And everyone here at New Jeshwang School would like to wish you a very merry Christmas We hope you like our singing. Click here to listen to song Click here to listen to hear me speak

11. Well we hope you get some snow. And just in case you don’t we are sending you a surprise! Can you guess what it is? We say bye for now and we hope to hear from you soon.