Saturday 17 October 2009

CRCL image feautred on CYEC website

An image from our 2004 visit to Rungwe has been used on the exchanges
home page of the CYEC (Common Wealth Youth Exchange Council) website.
The image was taken at Lubala Secondary School and shows Cumbrian and
Rungwe Students playing music together.


Follow the link to see it:
http://www.cyec.org.uk/exchanges/youth-exchanges

Saturday 10 October 2009

More on Day 1 - Gillerthwaite residential

Friday night !!!!!!!!!!

We arrived here open minded and not knowing what to expect, but all of
us soon settled in and found out more about each other! And what we
didn't know before we wrote on a piece of paper on a wall ! As everyone
was arriving at different times we all got to know the area and what our
groups and tasks were for the weekend. The first cooking group made bean
surprise..(with no recipe or instructions!) and an amazing apple
crumble! Lucy T organised a human conveyor belt for the washing and
drying up, and let out her cutlery fetish! :P

Afterwards we had a group meeting to ask questions about Tanzania,
during this people were taken out individually for their interviews, ie
an informal chat with Don and Russel, who got increasingly more drunk as
the night wore on.. We found out about eating animal tubes for tea,
drinking sour milk to be polite and the Tanzanian fascination with toast
and that Poli = Cheese man and God =D .

We then found JENGAAAAA and found out that Lucy T has never played it
before! Shock horror! So we moved on to the twister board!! Many people
got to know each others bumsss ! After the Twister players had had
enough of the sight of each others bummms ( which were very nice bums so
no one was complaing ) we decided to play HIDE AND SEEK just to bring
the childish side out. Rachel screamed as she saw some one sitting in
the dark ! (well she thought she did !!! ) even after the immense scream
her and isla used mission impossible tricks to stop them selves from
getting caught ! and it worked !!! Ash also tried to tunnel through the
bed bottoms but didn't succeed unfortuantly.

Day1 - Gillerthwaite Residential

Mitchell and Robert were the first arrival's (and think that they
deserve credit for this), followed by Daniel and finally Ben. Having
settled into our accommodation, Robert distributed Coca-cola lollipops
out of the kindness of his heart. Mitchell then represented "team
testosterone" in cooking dinner and the remaining three of us helped by
devouring the delicious food (with some washing and tidying up as well
on the human conveyor belt). Whilst Daniel took half an hour to complete
his interview, partly because the Russ and Don couldn't shut him up, the
rest of us were reassured in a question and answer section by Mary. The
evening concluded with a Jenga, hide and seek and twister game session,
supplied with back-ground music from Rob.
Overall the afternoon was a success and we rated it as 9.5/10
By Daniel, Mitchell, Rob and Ben