Heya, Elizabeth and Hayley here!!!! So we are in Lilongwe for own 3rd week of training. It was meant to start on Wednesday but we finally recieved a text at 8.30pm saying the training would start on Thursday instead. This allowed us more time to plan and another lie-in (except Kirstie who is the early bird of the group!) Today we were meant to be picked up at 8am to be taken to the school we would be training at, but come 8.15 we received another text asking us to get a taxi. We wondered into town to find a taxi but everyone was really expensive. We found a guy who said he would take us in his car and when we finally negotiated on a price, he declared he was not a taxi driver! Crazy! We eventually found a guy in the market who would take us in two ramshackled vehicles. Lorelei, Kirstie and Elizabeth went in the death trap mobile first which stalled over every bump and scraped over the road. At the training we discovered only 8 ladies out a possible 45. So we sat and waited for 1 1/2 hours to see if more would turn up, and only one more did. The others were "On the way". We made a decision to plan the timetable for the remaining 3 days and discuss the norms (rules) of training which we exactly the same as the previous 2 weeks. We said we would start training properly tomorrow morning when (hopefully) more people have arrived! We then had to wait for 1 hour for the taxis to arrive where this time Ruth, Emily and Hayley were given the pleasure of the stalling car which caused much hilarity when it stalled in a ditch!!!!! We arrived back in 1 piece and now have the lovely job of cramming 5 days worth of training into 3 days!!!!!
Much love,
Hayley and Elizabeth xxx
We are team Malawi! A group of 6 members from Girlguiding UK who have been selected to go on a GOLD project (Guiding Overseas Linked with Development) in July/August 2011. We are the 2nd group to be going to the country where we will be helping to develop Guiding.
Hi from Kirstie's Mum and Dad,
ReplyDeleteAlthough Kirstie is normally woken at 6.30am for work and claims to be a morning person, don't let this fool you. She can lie-in and sleep at every opportunity. Beware the (four hour) afternoon naps. The taxis sound like an adventure in themselves. Do be careful when negotiating with non-taxi drivers though.
Hi
ReplyDeleteToo much information re: transport. Hope the rest of the training goes well and that you have more there.
Keep up the good work.
The transport sounds horrendous! What have I told you about getting into strangers cars!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that you have changed your plans to accommodate the planned protests.
We are all safe and sound here in England and the riots seem to have settled down - a good dose of British rain seemed to help! Brendan missed out on the Croydon riot as he was on days although the previous night shift had been sent there. There was a group of yobs who raided Makro's in Reading but they got caught although the goods they stole didn't get found.
Hope the rest of the training goes well - sounds like they need the time management. Take care
love Wendy