We went to the animal fair, the birds and the beasts were there...

Today began at half past two with a random phone call to Mrs Ps home phone. It woke pretty much every one up, apart from Deborah and Bec who were having an epic 4 hour marathon of playing Monopoly Deal. This confused Miriam because she got out of bed to deal with the ringing phone only to find that Bec was awake and had beaten her to it.

The random phone call theme continued as Amelia got one on the group phone at about 7.00 am this morning- not too early but we were all having a bit of lie in as we did not have to meet Berle and the Guyanese GOLD team until 10.30 am. Initially she thought it was her alarm and ignored it, but after the seventh time it rang she realised that it was a phone call and had to frantically search in her bag to find it. The person on the end of the line was quite difficult to understand and would not say who they were. They wanted to speak to Jess urgently so Amelia had to dash up the stairs and wake Jess up. It turned out that it was Oshelle ringing to tell us not to meet at Berle's church but at Girlguiding CHQ as originally planned. We were all very pleased it was not anything more serious!

As we all slowly got up, Miriam and Bec did some washing and laid the table for breakfast. Amelia and Bec also went out to pick up more water because we were getting very low. Whilst at the shop they bought lots of lovely exotic juices for us to have with our breakfast. They were sooooo yummy!

We walked to CHQ to find that the building was open but nobody was there. However, we only had to wait about 5 minutes for Nea and Oshelle to arrive. We started our planning for camp together and discussed the activities and crafts that we were going to do whilst we are away. We also drew up a detailed resources list of everything we need to buy before Tuesday morning. It is quite long but we think we can get it all. Berle arrived a little bit later and we did some more planning for camp together.

It was very productive and we are fairly confident that camp is going to go well and the Guides are going to have lots of fun :D.

After our planning session had finished we jumped into a taxi to go and order some Guyanese leader polo shirts. We spent a long time choosing colours but everyone was finally happy with their choices. We are really looking forward to them being ready after camp next Friday. We have also been promised by Berle a visit to her seamstress so we can get traditional Guyanese/African dresses made- very exciting.

Clare and Miriam then went to Nigel's to pick up food for the next 4 days, whilst Deborah and Amelia went to the pharmacy and Bec and Jess took Saudia, Erin and Felicity back to Foreshaw Street, via the Fruit man. We all had lunch together in the garden and it was lovely.

After lunch we chatted for a while before deciding to go to the zoo. Saudia and Erin came with us and we had a really good time. We saw all sorts of exotic birds, including parrots, toucans, egrets and a Harpy eagle. We also all loved the baby cougars and the ocelot. It was a fantastic afternoon out. 

Now we are all sat out in the garden and we are very pleased that it has decided to cool down a little bit. We are enjoying more juice and breadfruit chips kindly made for us by Eileen. Tomorrow we are going to visit Erin and have lunch with her and some of the other Guides. 

LOGL

Team Guyana

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