Hi all,
Lorelei, Ruth and Kirstie updating the blog.
After a fairly restful night - minus the 4.45am wake up from the mosque next door we had a plain breakfast of - bread, bread and more bread! Kirstie and Emily slept through the mosque wake up call, I have no idea how!!!!
We arrived to start training at 9am this morning, there were meant to be 100 ladies and girls, but when we arrived there were about 20. We waited around for a bit while a few more filtered in and then started our training.
Myself (Lorelei), Ruth and Hayley trained with the young girls aged 8 - 17 years old and Kirstie, Elizabeth and Emily trained the ladies 18+.
With the under 18's we started with some promise activities. The whole day proved quite difficult as the girls spoke very little English and our translator, didn't translate very accurately, making it quite interesting! We had also planned to do some activities which involved cutting, but once we started we realised that the girls had never used scissors before and struggled cutting. The girls were all very friendly and started off quite shy, but by the end had grown in confidence and enjoyed chatting to us in broken English. They broke into songs and dancing throughout the trainings and we realised that Malawians are good dancers and singers at any age!
Kirstie here updating you on our day with the adults. We started off with some getting to know you activities and then moved onto our main focus of the day outdoor activities. We taught the ladies how to do a scavenger hunt and they enthusiastically ran out of the door to try and find as many different leaves as they could. We also taught them about treasure hunts and they enjoyed setting each other clues to follow. They were quite quiet today, but seemed to enjoy it, we are hoping they will engage a bit more as the training progresses.
We ended the day with 62 girls and ladies and are hoping to reach 100 by tomorrow.
We are heading off now to try some sugar cane.
Lots of love
Team Malawi
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.
ReplyDeleteKirstie could sleep through any wake-up call. Beware her afternoon naps which can last 4 hours.
hiii,
ReplyDeleteso happy ur all having a good time over there, the training all sounds ace and i glad the ladies over there are enjoying it as much as you are :D.
Keep up the good work u lot
love sam x
Great to hear how things are going. 4.45am.....I thought there was only 1 4.45 and it's not in the morning!
ReplyDeleteJust stumbled across your blog. Awesome work team Malawi! Sounds like the trainings are going great. Have lots of fun. Ruth Ohldag Xxx
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