[HRAP Kenya] First day of the pre-departure program
The first day of our HRAP pre-departure program was a great step into the beginning of our big trip. It made me realize “Wow I’m going to Kenya (AFRICA!!!!) in about two weeks” which is a big deal.
To get us started Catherine laid out binders on the desks that included Kenya related articles to get us started with any research and extra information we may need to know for our trip (so we already knew where we're going to sit, lol). Then once we were all settled in we discussed or plane ride plans and found out that we would be flying to Ghana and staying in the airport of Ghana for 12 HOURS!!!! Yes 12 as in T-W-E-L-V-E. We don’t know if we will be able to leave the airport, which makes our trip even more exciting because we can say that we have been to both Ghana and Kenya (two countries of Africa) in two weeks.
After the discussion and our daily Check-In we began to play a human scavenger hunt to find out more information about Kenya from other Global Kids staff members. That was hard but very informal and I learned a lot (there were many Swahili words in the movie “The Lion King”). We also tried our best to figure out the 61 countries and territories in Africa and put it on our individual maps; which was nice to find out, then we looked at a video of the students and GK staff leaders that went to Croatia in 97’. It was an amazing experience for them as I hope it will be for us with Tabitha taping the whole experience. We now have 17 more days until we leave for Kenya and I’m very excited.
