Volunteer House and TVE Orientation

Okay so about this volunteer house.

Yes I arrived and it was very overwhelming, haha I arrived as people were leaving so a lot of people were outside, and I was the last to arrive for this group so I had no idea who was new and who was old. It has all worked out though. I got a tour of the place. It has one main house, and 3 smaller rooms in their own buildings outside.
It is gated, and we have a security guard, and a house manager Eliza, our driver Michael, and 3 cooking ladies, and everyone is absolutely amazing. This sounds a lot more fancy than it is though I warn you.

There are around 30 volunteers living here and staff members on top of that. We have two toilets and two showers....which have very minimal hot water. The power goes out here quite regularly and then sometimes the back up generator will fail as well. We make it work though. :)

In my room which is one of the back rooms that you have to go outside to get to, there is a shower and a toilet, as well as 11 other girls living with me in very small quarters. Many more females do this volunteering than males, I believe there are only 5 or 6 guys in the house. So yes we have 6 bunk beds and a couple feet of space and cabinets on both ends of the room, but that is it. Haha it's actually worked out better than you would originally think, the only crappy part is that my bed is right beside the bathroom area so as soon as people wake up for placement at 6:30 it means we basically all wake up not by choice. I am not a morning person at all, but am slowly adjusting!

On my first full day in the house, we had orientation.
Here they basically just gave us alot of information most of which seemed to be common sense, but unfortunately not for all people lol. We also went into town to get shown  around, and alot of people had to get phones and such.
Every morning I take my breakfast which varies depending on the day, out to the front, where we have some couches on the steps and I eat my breakfast and watch the sunrise, if the sky is clear, we also have a decent view of Mt. Meru from our steps! I really do love it here, and can already tell that it will be hard to leave, and there will be a large adjustment from living in the volunteer house to a mud and cow dung hut with no electricity or running water ever with the Maasai haha. Still looking forward to it though.

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I will fill you in about my placement next time! Then I should be up to date, haha my posts might slow down a little now because I will have a little bit more of a regular schedule, so there won't be as much to report! I will still stay in touch though!