First Meeting - where in the world?

 

After going through our selection days we then joined together as a team for the first time on September 28th 2013. We are one of four trips from London and the South East in 2014, but as the oldest group we've been given the exciting opportunity to design our own trip.  This day consisted of us getting to know each other and coming up with ideas of where we wanted to go and what our project was going to be - and we had the whole world to choose from!

We started with some icebreaker games to begin the getting to know you process. Then we began the very exciting process of choosing a destination and project. We had the whole world at our fingers, so where to go?? 

 Decision over the project was fairly simple as all of our strengths were based around working with children and young people. So which country to go to was all that was left to decide.  In groups we came up with all the positive and negatives for the countries we had narrowed it down to based around what we had decided would make an exciting and adventurous project and trip. 



We got it down to the final four options and it was a unanimous decision that we wanted to go to Kenya, although the formalities needed to be sorted before it was confirmed we were going there. But just leaving it at that for the day meant that we left very excited even though it was still 10 months away!!