5:00am: Wake up to make a breakfast of bread and tea.

 The tea is made by boiling water over an open fire then adding loose tea leaves and      fresh milk and the bread has either been homemade with a simple recipe or bought from the nearby market.

5:30am: Take the cows and goats out to a nearby mountain meadow to graze.

Most families do not have the money to buy their own land or buildings for the animals.

6:00am: Gul Bahar meets up with some friends from the nearby village and they start to walk to school.

The walk to school for Gul Bahar and other students from her village takes about an hour and a half. It is three and a half miles long in the blazing hot sun and every day there is fear of a landslide occurring. This is just one of the many dangers they [and many other students in Afghanistan] face on the walk to school.

7:30am: Morning assembly

8:00am: Reading, writing and arithmetic

The students sit and listen to the teacher working through sums, reading or writing as they take notes. They have no tables, have to bring their own writing paper and the classroom walls are bare and colourless.

3:00pm: Students begin the long trek back home again.

Usually on empty stomachs as the school cannot pay to feed all the pupils and many cannot afford breakfast either.

4:30pm: Bring the livestock [cows and goats] back in from the mountain meadow and into the house

5:00pm: Pick up the livestock’s dung from the meadow with bare hands and take it home to be burned and used for fuel.

6:00pm: Prepare dinner for the family.

Three boiled eggs each and then drink cups of boiled water that were used to cook the eggs.

6:15pm: Eat dinner