A Day of Birds...

A little change to the blog today, instead of being written by Jules, Danielle is taking over for this post...

Thursday. We decided to have a day of rest and stay at the guest house for the day as a team. Therefore, the day started off with a wonderful lie in!! Although Grace and I woke up 5 minutes before breakfast, so we were almost late for our latest ever breakfast at 9.00 :s
We then had a team meeting to work out the plan for next week, working in the children's camp and the day soon began.

Then the fun began . . . we had a mission to make 380 origami birds! The birds are going to be used for the children's camp next week and we had been given the task of making hundreds. Karen and Lauren (the American's in our team) spent all of Wednesday making them, so had the challenge of teaching all of us. This was a struggle but after completing a few birds (some ending up in the bin) we got the hang of it and our pace picked up. As the day progressed, we ended up creating a production line, swapping seats and trying loads of different American sweets. All we started to think about was folding paper, birds in general and how much longer we had to go. Lunch was a great break and the afternoon session of bird making began. We made blue and green coloured paper birds, changing colours gave some relief but overall it was a tiring job! Towards the end of the day it was becoming intense but the end was in sight. We were counting down in tens and finally we had finished!! :) and just in time for dinner.

Unfortunately, bad news was soon to follow . . . we had a call to say we had to make more birds as we had made such good progress. NO! Bird making hadn't finished - Watoto's creative department called and we were going to have to restart in the morning.

The evening was relaxing, having an evening of fun and some interesting discussions, with not a bird in sight. What a relief! Overall, it was nice to have a day off and chill out as a team. It ended up with us going to bed at midnight (even though we had to be up at 6 the next morning) with a surprise on our pillows . . . an origami bird! We couldn't even go to bed without having to see another paper bird.

[Editors note: Nikki made and placed the birds on the pillows!]