First day coaching in Zimbabwe
Monday 22nd July 2024 By Bess Turpin Today was our first full day in Zimbabwe, thankfully we were treated with a much needed lie in, 7.30am !! Breakfast was delicious with a range of food including avocado, eggs, toast, fruit and porridge. All full up, we hoped on the bus to our first morning of community projects which was at an old peoples home where we were greeted by an one hundred and eleven year old lady. We were split into groups which were given various tasks such as painting, brick laying and litter picking. I was tasked with removing plaster off a room wall in prep for it to be painted. We meticulously scraped plaster off the walls until the bare brick was exposed. After this hard work we had lunch and moved straight on to coaching which was hard in the beating sun but was very rewarding. After 2 hours of coaching we returned to Sizinda camp for a quiet evening of games, a beautiful sunset and drums around the campfire. Mum, Dad, Alex I am having an ama...
Looks like great fun, enjoy the African adventure!
ReplyDeleteWe are really loving these photos, especially the animals and the action shots from the games. Looks amazing and can't wait to hear all about it. Love to you all, especially to Milly from Jeff, Kate, Lucy and Elma! xx
ReplyDeleteLoving hearing everything that's going on, we can't wait for the blogs every evening. It sounds like such a phenomenal adventure, but I don't doubt it's very exhausting for you all, especially if you are up at 5.30a.m. on a regular basis!
ReplyDeleteWe see you have moved camps today, so we hope you settle well into your new home for the next few nights and hope the walk wasn't too arduous with your cases in the heat!
Keep up the great work with all of the coaching. We love to see the photos of what you are all doing. Although over a week into the trip, I know many of the parents I see, and us included, are missing our children heaps, so if there's a chance we can have more photos of them, we would really appreciate it.
Don't be too jealous Amelie, but I'm heading off with Sophia tomorrow for our girls trip, so I'll send you some photos of our trip (to the phone you don't have!). I will write again when I'm back as sadly you cannot comment on this blog via iphones.
Much love to everyone from us all in the UK, Especially to Amelie - love you.
Mum, Dad, Sophia and Winston xxxx
Hi, I am able to post from iPhone, go to Settings, Safari, scroll down to Prevent Cross-site tracking and slide the green bar to off. Hopefully this helps while people are away from laptops/pc’s
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