I heard some colleagues moaning recently about having to do things that weren’t in their job descriptions….
I giggled to myself about this after the last few days me and LG have had. Job descriptions? What job descriptions….and thats why I just love what I do sometimes. These is what I thought as I sat on the table in the office cutting out large letters in sparkly red paper, to make a welcome sign, sticking down pieces of card to make a Zambian flag, in amongst chatting away in my bad spanish, giggling and planing for a big march next week. The day before after doing some planning for our meeting (which i guess is in our job descriptions) then setting off shopping to buy paints, plastic, paper, card and most importantly balloons.
What better way to learn spanish than to follow around N as she told me things to go and find in a shop that was the Honduras equivalent of B&Q on speed! When would I ever have learnt the words for balloon? Me and LG then went on what felt like the quest for the holy grail to find ‘palstico negro’ for the march. Everyone apart from us seemed to know what is was and eventually we found it! I’ve put in a picture of the ‘plastico negro’ to show you what it was…what we are going to use it for is anyones guess at the moment.
Another shop saw us amazed by the enormous number of ‘pinatas’ hanging from ceiling. There was so many, even an Elmo from Sesame Street one! It was a very surreal sight.
To top it all off, today was spent building large black coffins, which the young people will use to parade through the streets during their march……….
More formal meeting start tomorrow, so back to the job description for a few days…sadly……
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