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Thursday Nov 02, 2006

training weekend

well Ive just come back from a training weekend up in london for tanzania. It was really good, i finally got to meet the people I'll be travelling with, and it succeded in making me very aware that I am actually going. For the majority of saturday I panicked about packing when they told me that I should only take one huge backpack...for 8 months! but I've come to terms with it now, and think I'm going to cope...just! Im very succeptable to the culture I'm in and at the moment my room is overflowing with jeans, t-shirts, jumpers, necklaces and shoes, but when i get out there Im sure ill be fine, if not I'll shop! The weekend also instilled in me the importance of learning swahili, so I'm trying to do that a lot more now, and I learnt one very important word at the weekend...'jamba' which apparently means fart! Aswell i learnt some cultural rules like what i can and cant wear, and they confirmed that my smoking must stop, but i dnt think thats going to cause a problem as i smoke out of habit, and if i'm busy, or out of daily routine i can not smoke for weeks.

I'm so excited, I just want to buy all my kit stuff and go..NOW! this has been made even stronger with the beginning of christmas songs at work yesterday (1st november) when rudolf the red nose reindeer is on every half an hour it makes me just want to scream, but i have what...6 or 7 weeks of it left! after a weekend of excitement, and talking to people who are passionate about the same things as me, to return to helping overweight women but jeans is hard, but not long now! whoooooooo

Posted by Emily ( 5:47 PM )
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