A Chaotic Morning

I guess our group has been quite spoiled with very good organisation by the hubs in Mombasa and Lamu which we were reminded this morning on our first day of training in Malindi. First of all, we did not know until yesterday afternoon/evening whether we would train or not. Then we found out that we are running 3 courses (PC Maintenance, Introduction to Spreadsheet and Train the Trainer). However, 1/3 of our team was down with a stomach bug so we were only 6 to go to the school.

When we arrived there only two trainings were planned to in the school and my course which I took over from Shellyas she was sick (Train the Trainer) was supposed to be held in another school. We could not have our small group to be separated and there were two rooms available. Now talking to one of the guys that was involved in organising the training in Malindi he wanted to tell me that we need to respect adults and have to go to the other school as the teachers were told the course is going to be there. Now, that was also the person that told us he meets us at 10am in the hotel on Sunday to discuss what is planned and never showed up nor answered his phone or answered texts. So that person wanted to lecturing me about respecting adults and on top of that he is only 19 years of age and seems to have issues with women.

Hmmm the one that know me can probably imagine my reaction to all of this. Basically he told me to rearrange was not possible and my answer was just like the Nike advertisement: "Everything is possible." Surprisingly he did make it possible but all of the sudden with all this chaos most of the teachers did not bother to show up anymore. Instead of starting my course at 9 I started at 10:30 am.

A teacher in my morning class (we split the courses and held each course in the morning and in the afternoon so people could take advantage and learn as much as they could) told me that he was told about the courses by his principle on Saturday and was promised more information on Sunday - which never happened. So he showed just up and there he was in my course. Although the day was quite chaotic the courses run very well and our three sick people at the hotel were all feeling much better. So all in all it was a great day.

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Wencke