World cup fever!
Feel it! It is here!
World cup here and it's mega in Swaziland. The first game on Friday has everyone very excited. There are big screens going up in big towns and it is anticipated that little work will be done for the next month.
Not so for us!! We have a schedule to keep!!! The team continue to improve the quality of their training and the numbers keep growing. At present we have trained more than 1000 people. Today was one for the first training sessions in and NCP which is a Neighbourhood Care Point. These NCPs care for orphaned and vulnerable children. They attend for play and food, and we are training the volunteers who attend them. The team for each NCP consists of one carer, two teachers and two cooks, and they are all attending the training.
Incidently it's completely freezing here. I'm in Shiselweni at the moment and I think it's one of the only places I've ever been to where it's completely appropriate to pack a hat, scarf and boots and also factor 30 sunblock. The days are hot and the nights are COLD!.
Last weekend we had a great time camping in a cave on top of the biggest granite rock in the world. Amazing! There was about 25 expats all BBQing around a massive fire. We had to hike up the face of the rock to get there and it was proper spiderman style climbing. It's so SO steep, it was a bit scary. Not so for one member of the group who made it up in the dark by the light of a cell phone and in shoes with as much grip as a pair of slippers. I would have died. I was a bit afraid of the cold on the rock, but with enough blankets and getting close enough to the fire I had about 4 hours sleep! Not bad!! There's a really lovely group of people who all socialise together here - mostly NGO workers. They are a lot of fun.
World cup here and it's mega in Swaziland. The first game on Friday has everyone very excited. There are big screens going up in big towns and it is anticipated that little work will be done for the next month.
Not so for us!! We have a schedule to keep!!! The team continue to improve the quality of their training and the numbers keep growing. At present we have trained more than 1000 people. Today was one for the first training sessions in and NCP which is a Neighbourhood Care Point. These NCPs care for orphaned and vulnerable children. They attend for play and food, and we are training the volunteers who attend them. The team for each NCP consists of one carer, two teachers and two cooks, and they are all attending the training.
Incidently it's completely freezing here. I'm in Shiselweni at the moment and I think it's one of the only places I've ever been to where it's completely appropriate to pack a hat, scarf and boots and also factor 30 sunblock. The days are hot and the nights are COLD!.
Last weekend we had a great time camping in a cave on top of the biggest granite rock in the world. Amazing! There was about 25 expats all BBQing around a massive fire. We had to hike up the face of the rock to get there and it was proper spiderman style climbing. It's so SO steep, it was a bit scary. Not so for one member of the group who made it up in the dark by the light of a cell phone and in shoes with as much grip as a pair of slippers. I would have died. I was a bit afraid of the cold on the rock, but with enough blankets and getting close enough to the fire I had about 4 hours sleep! Not bad!! There's a really lovely group of people who all socialise together here - mostly NGO workers. They are a lot of fun.
posted by KeiraCiara at
18:32
1 Comments:
Over 1000 people! You are such a star. Really quite envious of you camping up a granite cliff-top but not sure the kids would have let us get even 4 hours sleep. My vuvuzela is being played in assembly tomorrow as they launch their world cup stuff!
Hope the social stuff keeps pace with the rest of the work.
God bless
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