Surprise One. Last week the training workshop we did had not fifteen but seventy-five learners. Seventy-five! Way too many for one classroom. So, we split them up, putting the fifteen who had been to a workshop before in one class and the sixty new people in another. I worked with the sixty new people, which was exhausting and I missed my old learners, but…now another twenty-odd drop-in centres know the ins and outs of how to write an organization’s constitution and a few other useful things. Despite the massive quantity of extra people, this session actually went smoother than last time, as we had ironed out some of the bumps and I had adjusted to speaking at a pace and in a manner that people better understood.
Surprise Two. The drop-in centres have a functioning networking committee now, which I found out today when they came to Khanimamba to have their monthly meeting. I sat in on their meeting, which they used to plan a calendar for the rest of the year, including events for the OVCs like a netball tournament and an awareness campaign. A pleasant surprise.
Surprise Three. Tomorrow we are visiting drop-in centres. We are leaving from town at 7 am. I have never actually arrived in town this early before. It seems logical that they wouldn’t have planned to meet this early if the taxis didn’t run then, right?
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