Bridge to Tanzania

By day two in kigali we were all pretty close by then and had managed to form small little families within the 60 or so people around. It was unexpected and also nice at the same time to see how the ICV's (In Country Volunteers) and UKV's (UK Volunteers) quickly just became V's. Some even started making love connection which would have 10 weeks to blossom. The seeds were just getting planted.

As for the days we spent the day doing team building exercises so we could get to know each others strengths and weaknesses and so that once we arrived to our different projects there would hopefully be no nasty surprises.

Lauren aka Billy no mates.

All 60 of the volunteers got together for a postcard picture.

In the afternoon we were given the mission of building a bridge within our groups that could be used by both humans and vehicles. Although our team didn't come in first we managed to work well together to build a bridge that theoretically would connect Rwanda and Tanzania. This also meant we came in second place.

Meet my team- Reuben-My Irish Hubby, Lauren- My Scottish Lass, Eme- The House Mother, Patrick- The Wannabe Gangster,Lys- The Little One, Paddy- The Brighton Lad, Emmanuel- The Wannabe Joker, and Me- The Special One

We then  had to draw our fellow team member and as you can see only a select few had any real taler but nevertheless it was fun and interesting since we got to find out some cook information about each other. Can you spot the team in the pictures about.

Lauren, Vicki, Reuben, Gabs, Fled, Paddy

Dinner time was both exciting and excruciating since it was fun to decompress and talk about the days events but also all we had to look forward to was carb central. Every type of carb you can imagine ended up on our plates be it sweet potatoes, fried potatoes, chips, Yam, Rice, Pasta. For those of us who had had dreams of losing weight whilst in Africa it soon become apparent that we probably wouldn't be able to fit into the clothes we had going back.

At the end of the day we shared our hopes and dreams of the coming placement.

 whilst it was all very interesting and fun by this time we were also starting to feel like cooped up chickens since we went really allowed out of the compound to explore Kigali as much as we wanted. Whilst the arguments given were understandable you can still imagine the frustration of 60 or so young people cooped up after 9 in a new town.

I hope this reaches you in good faith and i will talk to y'all soon.
I need to go set up for the yoga class i am holding but have a lovely time/day wherever you are in the world.

Issie xox