It's the final countdown!!

Kate's very organised (!) pile of packing

Well the wait is almost over, on Friday the D1200 GSE team will meet at Heathrow and compare each other’s packing skills, before boarding a plane bound for Africa! There’s been a lot of e-mails flying between the team sharing useful tips and advice that we have found from chatting to past GSE team members. These top tips covered everything from the medical (bring lots of immodium!) to the practical (taking maps to show our hosts where we live). Plus the kind of advice that can only come from those who have been through a busy GSE programme before, such as keeping a daily log to record our experiences, and a very useful template for doing so.

Team Leader Bob discovered the Murphy’s Law of To Do lists... “ The more you do, the more you remember to do” which the whole team can relate to! We are all busy ensuring we have thought of everything for the trip, as well as making sure we leave our professional roles as organised as we can before we disappear from our workplaces for a month.  

So over the next few days no doubt there will be lots of lists, lots of ‘did I remember to...’, and lots of excitement.  Very soon we will be saying ‘shalapo’ to District 1200 and ‘Mulishani Mukwai’ to Zambia and we can’t wait!