Desk Officers.

This is typed as my laptop charger dies slowly. It's duct-taped together and then duct-taped to my computer so it stays at the right angle then it's resting in my knee so it has the right height. (it's a standard 19.5v dell charger just in case anyone has more money than me!).

My organisation is here visiting us at the moment which is odd. I know all over my blog screams “I'm with Project Trust” but really I need to change that. I see PT now as less of what my whole year is about and more of just a provider of what I needed to get out here and now that I'm here, they're just a bit of a nuisance. There are so many volunteers here-about 40-that I don't ever hang out with anyone else from PT other than Sarah. They're just not my kind of people. They're very nice and I can spend time with them, I just have nothing in common with them. But my project is unusual in that there are so many other volunteers here, so I don't need to be with PT people all the time. Also, my manager is amazing so if I have any problems I go to her instead of PT. So the fact that there's a guy here asking me all about my year and how it's going and my goals for the next 6 months etc. etc. etc. is bizarre. Especially since we've never met him before now! He's a nice guy, a bit awkward, I think he's trying really hard to get us to like him. And he's buying us lots of food and drinks and things which is baie lekker!

Project Trust has a selection course which is compulsory, a training course also compulsory and a debriefing course, optional. The debriefing course is only 2 days long but is on the isle of Coll (at least 1.5 days travel from where I live) and something like 3 trains and a ferry away. When I mentioned to my desk officer that I almost certainly wasn't going on debriefing, he seemed a little disappointed but undeterred from trying to persuade me from coming. I think of debriefing as a massive pissing contest. It's all the SA volunteers and volunteers from I think 3 other countries and as much as he's being trying to sell it to me, it still seems like a glorified pissing match. Basically from what I've gathered is the volunteers all meet up and exchange stories from their year, and what they've learnt and all sorts. It's also your closure for the year away. But my year away has become more than Project Trust. My year has become the Home and all the volunteers and kids here. It will be the end of my year when I have to leave the Home and go back to England.

I'm so grateful to PT for giving me the training and sorting everything out for my year and getting me out here, but now the only thing that makes me think I'm with PT is that they have my flight ticket back.

And if anyone wants to send me one of them there dell chargers it'll be much appreciated!