List
While everybody else is busy with his or her Christmas list, I have been obsessing about a list of my own.
I shall call this my Preparing for Zambia List (a.k.a. Things to Do Before Leaving for My VSO Placement List). Here goes:
- Fix travel papers
- Practice riding the bicycle (It’s probably been more than 20 years since the last time that I’ve actually ridden one!)
- Learn to drive the motorbike
- Take a million and one vaccine shots and/or preventive medication for Diphtheria-Polio-Tetanus, Measles, Hepa A and B, TB, Flu, Pneumonia, Yellow Fever, Rabies, Meningitis, Malaria, etc.
- Undergo a full dental check-up
- Learn basic Nyanja
- Read VSO reference materials (i.e., Volunteer Handbook, Health and Security Handbook, Volunteers and Development book, among others)
- Review on debate formats and rules
- Read up on Leadership theories
- Collect reference materials on Leadership, Youth development, Fund raising, etc.
- Read up on
- Watch more football (soccer) to familiarize myself with the sport (No more live basketball games for me in
- Learn how to really cook (And I don't mean 'survival cooking,' which is the only kind of cooking I know as of yet. Harhar.)
- Shop for appropriate clothes (i.e., collared blouses and ankle-length skirts), footwear, and other paraphernalia (Arrgh…I hate shopping!)
This really isn’t a bad list. Not bad at all. A big chunk of it sounds like fun. The catch, however, is that I have to accomplish all these before February 19 (my departure date) on top of finishing my on-going projects (a.k.a. "rackets") with two organizations and attending another VSO training course.
No time for dilly-dallying now. Every day counts.
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this might not fit the category "preparing for zambia" but something to do before leaving for your VSO experience anyway:
sulitin ang Brownman sa 70s (and xaymaca? and/or consipracy?). hehehehe.
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