Well, nearing the end of my first week in Livingstone and it's never boring! The house that I'm sharing with one other volunteer is enormous and beautiful. It has a mango tree in the garden, and plenty of space to hang laundry inside so we won't have to iron everything to keep the flies away!
Unfortunately the first night we arrived, it was about midnight and as we had no furniture we decided to stay with some volunteers who already live here. During the night someone broke into our house and went through all our luggage in minute detail. So upsetting to lose so many things after all the careful attention to packing! It was also very strange - the thieves opened up individual tampons, but kindly left Cala's neatly wrapped presents intact.
Apart from that, there have been lots of highs - most spectacularly, we went to see the luna mist over Victoria Falls, which is a rainbow that forms at full moon. Hard to describe and even harder to photograph but absolutely awesome.
I haven't started work properly yet, but did have a great introduction meeting with the staff and volunteers. Everyone's lovely and very enthusiastic, and they've achieved so much already I'm starting to wonder what my role is! I'm hoping to develop a volunteers policy though, Jane if you're reading this I could use a copy of the NAS one...
Think that's it for now, it's hard being away from home and learning that Grandad is so ill. It's also been raining torrentially for 24 hours which is not exactly what I signed up for. But keeping my spirits up, and tonight I'm going to take my first Livingstone taxi and meet some volunteer friends who are down for a conference. Pizza and a glass of wine will be very welcome!
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Ah! No way I can't believe you got robbed already!! Oh honey, big hugs from me xxx You know if they went through your tampons they were looking for drugs right- often a good hiding place. Or so I hear!! Bloody scumbags, I am extremely angry on your behalf. What is with the world? Some nasty individual stole Ann's coat at the O2 last week too.
ReplyDeleteAnyway we really missed you at Anh's birthday celebrations, we hope to send you some pictures soon. Hope things start looking up for you soon, I'll be thinking of ya. Lydia xx
That's terrible about the burglary, but hopefully you won't need all that Immodium anyway :-)
ReplyDeleteShame about the rain too, but if any consolation it's been absolutely freezing here!
No idea how I can attach the volunteering policy to this post, and if I paste it in, it exceeds the character limit - so I'll try emailing it to the email address I have for you; let me know if there's a better way!
The basement is thinking of you and missing you loads. Btw. apparently Norman told Robert that he thinks you should be a barrister - not sure if that's a good thing..,,
Hope you enjoyed the pizza and wine! Jane xx