Hurry up and Wait

The team at Lumley Beach

The last two days have been very interesting. We've had meetings both days with the leaders of the union and our co-tutors. It has been a very formal affair with everyone going by their titles (e.g. secretary general, project coordinator) and everything has to follow protocol. We've managed to approve the workshop schedule and plan out the first four days of the workshop. My co-tutor is a university professor from Milton Morgai Education and Technical College, he works in the education department teaching History. We will team teach the morning workshops together on the topic of Social Studies. In the afternoon and evenings, the rest of the CTF team and myself will teach various topics such as multi-grade instruction, special education, peace education and gender equality. It has been great to work alongside the co-tutors as some of the ideas we came with may not work in the classrooms here in Sierra Leone.
This afternoon we ended a bit early and were able to make it down to Lumley Beach for a few hours. We walked along the water, but didn't swim because the red caution flag was out. (this didn't stop me last time I was here but this group is a bit more cautious)
Tomorrow we hope to attend a Catholic mass near the hotel and then spend some time relaxing before our busy week. We found out that all our Sundays will be free as well as two days in the middle of the two sessions. We hope to do some short travels around the Freetown area.
Our team is getting along fabulously with lots of laughter and jokes. We keep each other in line (especially Karen).

I have mentioned in the past that we are staying at a hotel. Before you think you think that we're living it up, I would just like to inform you that the air conditioning rarely works and the electricity is off more than it is on, and our tiolet seat is broken in about three places. On the bright side, it's preparing me for life in Haiti!