The old has gone the new has come....

After a challenging week today has felt much more positive and with everyday the atmosphere within the team has been improving. One of the TZ vols had this t shirt on yesterday so we decided to adopt it as our slogan for this week. (I've also been listening to Tears for Fears, Everybody want to rule the world, on repeat! Seems I've found the musical equivalent for Prozac!) 

Today the vols had their 2nd GCD (global citizenship day) - it was focused on gender equality and raised some really interesting debates! At one point I was sure that there was going to be a brawl as 2 of the TZ lads had very strong opinions about men being clever, stronger and more able than women at everything. This is the general opinion of most of the males (and females) in TZ but its much more of a challenge when it's two of our vols who hold these options. I guess that's what this program is about though and hopefully by the end if the 12 weeks their options might have altered (fingers crossed).

Tomorrow we'll be holding our first Community Action Day. The volunteers have led in organising and planning it. They plan to host a five a side football tournament with the community and the winners will get some sodas. Their also going to talk about ICS and the activities they have planned for the coming weeks. Our Health team are also going to give a talk about Nutrition and provide mangos to the attendees. 

There's a wedding taking places right near my house and it sounds like a carnival! The drums have been going for days but guessing this is the big finale as there's music, singing, drums and general 'good time' sounds! Kinda wish I could check it out but I'm too sleepy and cosy in my bed.

Animal update: My host family gave away one of the kittens this week (I'd called her Anna), Mummy puss has seemed to take umbrage to this however and has subsequently taken the other two kittens (Tumaini and modesta) away and hidden them! I haven't seen them for 2 days and the weather has been so wet and cold I can't see how they will of survived. It's so sad. I just keep telling myself that they are somewhere safe and warm..... I hope so.