Day 1 of training......

Today is the first day of training. It's 7am and I'm just about to get up to grab a shower and then start my day. Yesterday was  pretty nuts trying to make the final preparations for the volunteers arrival. Our national volunteers started to arrive from around 3pm and the uk vols didn't reach the hotel until around 10.30pm, poor things had been travelling for around 36 hours and 17 of them didn't even have their luggage as it was still in Nairobi - is gong to be interesting to see how long before it all arrives. Its looking like it will be monday at the earliest not a good start as none of them packed spare clothes in their hand luggage! They all handled it really well though and the national volunteers were really welcoming and supportive so think that has really helped. 

We have mixed the majority of the volunteers into pairs (one national one international) for their room shares whilst on training but unfortunately 2 UK girls and 1 TZ  boys don't have have a counterpart at the minute  as our numbers were odd and 1 TZ girl dropped out of the program yesterday at around 6pm.

At 2pm my boss, Imissa, dropped it on me that I need to facilitate the first sessions today which of course Ive had no time to prepare for or even read the material. Aive is going to help though so we're just going to do our best with what we've got, likelihood is that all the volunteers might still be quite tired from travelling yesterday so might not notice that we're not as well prepared as we'd liked to have been! 

The hotel we are in is top notch, I'm sharing a room with Aive as we've so much work to do there was no point in having separate rooms! The view from our balcony is Incredible....I'll take a photo from my mobile but really don't think it will do it justice......

Do you know I've only just realised that its Sunday and we're working all day again.....boo : (