We’ve now been here half of our time and we are just starting to feel like home here in Congo. At the same time is sad when we realize that we only have a few months left, the first months passed by real fast and we are afraid that the coming months will also just fly by.
The school has been closed during december, this was a break for all activities in the school for the entire month and that we restart now in the begining of january. This was an oportunity for us volunteers to rest and charge batteries for the upcoming challenges that the spring will bring, even if we did not really rest, our batteries are well charged and we are looking forward to the next period.
We have been wanting to make a trip to the north since october and this trip came to finally happen in december. I can shortly resume the trip to a very exciting and educational. We visited intressting places we never thought we see here in Congo, hiked into the reinforest in hope to see some elefants, unfurtunately we only got to see their traces. By the end of our trip we were very tired but very gratefull to have a couple of days to actually rest before returning to Brazzaville. Above all we were also very happy with our trip, even if some things were not the way we thoght they would be, we are glad we did this trip.
We have now only a cuple of days left of free time and we all want to get started with the training activities. Louise was unfurtunately forced to fly back to Sweden after a long sickness period. It is not so fun to be here and not be able to participate in the activities, so now is only me and Elin that will continue. We feel healthy and very good about our host families and the fotball school.
//Football volunteers in Brazzaville – by Simon
