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...
Lovely to see these pictures and to read all your news. Hope you’re all having an amazing experience.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing experience you are all having! I was super jealous of this day! Hope Charlie appreciated the elephants more than he was expecting!! Great to see his ear or top of head in the pics! Bet you are doing that on purpose! 🤣
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