I would like to dedicate
a portion of this blog post to minibuses and how they cease to amaze me every
day. The sales guy who always hangs out
of the side window of these small buses has this theory that if you yell gibberish
loud enough any customer will come running.
In actuality, we never know what the heck he is shouting at us. Once you arrive on these vehicles, you are
given a choice of a luxurious crate to sit on or a small wooden slab on wood
etched between two regular seats. The
music systems in the minibuses are their most high tech feature. They provide a pair of speakers for each row
of seats that tend to blast techno or rap music even at nine o’clock in the
morning. I haven’t even taken into
consideration the people watching you get to witness. Most times, if a child and their mother step
onto a minibus, the child is handed to another passenger and gladly adopted as
their own for the remaining commute.
Overall, the minibuses are a very trustworthy way to drive/swerve from
one end of town to another.
Over the past few days,
there has been lots of activity in our household. We celebrated not just Valentine’s Day on
Sunday, but also Kayla’s 20th birthday. Our four token-males in the house provided us
with not only a full meal and dessert, but also roses! They also mistakenly made our lunch and
dinner for the next couple of days because of the 2 kilograms of pasta they
boiled.
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| Josh, Eric, Bryan, & Drew |
Everyone has also been diving
into their internships after a couple weeks of getting into a routine. At our office, we have received a few
projects to get started on in the coming weeks.
Our on-going project deals with a campaign that SPP has created. We, along with two other interns, are
documenting the last four years of the campaign’s events and actions against
food sovereignty. I have learned a lot
from the two other interns who are probably a few years older than Josh and
I. They are more than willing to answer
our questions and share tasks with us.
In the office, I have noticed that if you take your time to do quality
work, they will extend more to you. We
have received two more projects over the last two days focusing on individual
donors and also a database to help report stats to bigger funders of the
organization. Josh and I are spending
tomorrow at a workshop for youth hosted by SPP.
I am excited to see how the organization does their workshops and
informative events.
In just a couple of
days, most of the program will be embarking on the Garden Route for the
weekend. We are all looking forward to a
new destination and hopefully a weekend full of adventures!
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