There Goes Marie Claire
Our first few days after a shocking Sunday news, the team was restless and worried. We started our week on shakey ground. We lost the excitement, filled with worry and were not at ease with each other. Feelings of anger, frustration, judgements, and pointing fingures around the group.
Niel GX director, and Jess were very good in bringing our focus back to our journey and the purpose we were there for. They were great facilitators with strong directives that helped us move forward.
The first part of Monday we spent on orientation of the 3 weeks, shared practices, logistics, shared responsibilities, and also meeting British council members, Shona councilwoman, at the British council office, followed with lunch.
In the afternoon we met the city police representatives, Gerry and Trish, and got to know the safety issues and the bomb scares and conflicts of the Catholics and Protistants.
Followed by a bus tour of the city and locations of our placements. Which was a brilliant idea.
