Leadership, logistics and legs

Tomorrow is the first day of school, and tomorrow the Zimbabwe School
of Youth Leadership will be born. 18 youth from all over Zimbabwe are
going to be coming to participate in the two week orientation, held in
Guruve (a rural area). Most of the leadership training will happen in
the youth's own provinces/divisions, but they will come together every
3 months. I'm nervous and excited all at the same time. Personally, I
have already learned a lot about leadership from trying to prepare
this course!

A lot of planning is happening last minute - particularly around
logistics. Today people went out to buy the food. This was a challenge
because the prices that we got quoted last week have all jumped (side
note: our friend's daughter is starting kindergarten "grade zero"
tomorrow. Last Friday jerseys cost $13,000, and today they're $38,000
- the price jumps are incredible!) We're also still trying to locate a
beast; which we can eat for the 2 weeks. We went to collect our money
from the cash office, but they said that the bank is limiting what
people can take out at one time, so we weren't able to have any money.
That makes purchasing things a bit tricky! And then there's the hunt
for fuel... I've mostly been trying to prepare the course material. We
went to photocopy today, but the photocopier in our building was
broken. There is a photocopier in John's building, but they haven't
had electricity since Christmas. So, no photocopies. It's a bit
difficult for John to work on creating the website without electricity
nor internet access...

John decided to run home from work today, so as we were all waiting in
the parking lot, he arrived in his short shorts and running gear. One
girl kept staring at John's legs (which is understandable, because he
has nice legs!) I teased her about it and she explained that she was
just admiring how John is the same colour in his legs as in his face.
She said that it is an advantage of being white. She guessed that even
his buttocks were the same colour. No comment...