Today was very much like yesterday, we had breakfast at 8am and after started training. Today training was focused more on what we would be doing in the community and how we will be helping. We did this training until lunch time where I had one of the best meals so far on this trip. It was a sausage vegetable pasta and was pretty amazing. We had free time after this as our team leaders decided who our counterpart for the rest of our time here would be. Our counterpart is basically a Nigerian version of yourself. He will be living in the same house as me and helping with the same projects. Basically a shadow but a shadow that your good mates with. They also have never been to the community that we are going and are called "foreigners" just like us. This will be the person you will become closest to over the next few months. While training we had to come up with rules that we all must follow during our lessons and discussions. We then had to come up with punishments for breaking these rule. My idea from the start was to have a "HAT OF SHAME" that the rule breakers would have to wear, however, this was overruled at first the team picking standing up for five minutes as a punishment instead. When however this didn't work, I campaigned for the HAT OF SHAME and this time the punishment was passed. Enjoy some pictures of the culprits and the hat. While we had this time off, I asked our project officer Hassan if we could leave the commune as we hadn't been allowed to up to then and thankfully he said we could but only with him. We left and looked around the local area and saw the small marketplace selling anything from fruit to haircuts. It was an excellent little escape from the nunnery. In returning, we got to find out who our counterpart is. And I found out mine was a man called Cosmas, a really nice guy that I was previously buddied up with. For dinner, I tried plantain, and for me, it should have been a dessert, but I guess I'm pretty set in my ways. The highlight of the meal was the mangos that were bought in the market. About half the size of the mangos we have in England but twice as sweet. To finish the night off, we had another training session. Along with games (energisers).
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Evans Onyemauche
26/7/2018 11:03:35 pm
Brov you doing a good job keep it coming.
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