Living in A Foreign Field

The majority of today's orientation sessions dealt with the challenges faced when living overseas and were led by Annet using small group exercises, PowerPoint, hand-outs, and interactive activities. A broad range of subjects were covered all geared toward facilitating successful cross cultural adaptation and an effective transition into a team environment overseas. Real life on a foreign field was dissected and discussed on multiple levels. It was a time to hear the hard facts and ask the tough questions. The sessions were very helpful, well handled and well led. In short, "brilliant"!

Teresa wrapped the afternoon session up by speaking on the organisational structure of the programme manuals and had us work with different manuals to locate specific questions related to their flight programmes in Uganda and Kenya. Karen, Malaina, Luc, Mark, and I found nine of the ten correct answers.

On a completely different note: What does the "bin man" do? What time does your "postie" come around? Have your children had all their "jabs"? What is the specialty of a "solicitor"? And is taking a nap the same as taking a "nappie"?

By the way, I'm not sure what my blog schedule will be Wednesday/Thursday as we'll be going to 12 hour days as part of the Pre-Field Orientation portion. It's all rather hush-hush so we have no idea what we're headed into.

Thanks for praying for us!!