(apologies if you’re not old enough to remember the original
Gladiators...am clearly showing my age...)
Fieldbase is humming today with final preparations for the
arrival of the Project Managers tomorrow – we’re all seriously excited! I say
humming rather than loudly buzzing – that’s because we’ve sent 4 of the team to
San Jose to do airport pick-ups and stay over in San Jose this evening, and
those 4 just so happen to be the loudest!
Tomorrow is when the intensive Volunteer Manager training
begins, so we’ve had to get ourselves seriously organised in the last week...
The Logistics team (Nick, Roeland, Katie, Amy, Becky and
Krisztina) have prepared all the vehicles, counted and recounted stock,
organised the bodega into a beautifully tidy and precisely arranged storage
space (you could eat your dinner off those shelves), got all the food orders in
(rest assured we’ll never, ever, ever run out of porridge as a lorry load
arrived today, sorted all the maps and radios – and I’ve barely scraped the
surface there of what’s been achieved this week so well done guys.
Emma the Medic have set
up the medical room, sorted existing medical kits and ordered new stock, made
up all the trek and static kits, carried out medical one-to-ones to check we’re
all running like the well-oiled machines we are, and prepared the medical
training for all the PMs including the health and hygiene briefing for everyone
on expedition – very important!
Jen the accountant
has been very busy with the books, with the all important trip to the bank,
counting the cash, sorting out expenses, creating a new accounting system for
the shop and putting together a cash flow plan, balancing the dollars and
colones, meaning we always have the green to make the scene!
Katie our Admin Assistant (a Medic who has returned for a second expedition) has
been dealing with the rotas, managing the database, sorting post, setting up the
shop, putting together all the project packs and Venturer allocations, making
sure we’re in stationery and keeping our valuables safe and sound and under
lock and key.
The two Photographers (Bjorn for the 10-week expedition and
Dave on the 5-week expedition) have been putting together a plan for all the
shots we need to get on exped, and also capturing some of the best moments of
this week for a slide show we’re having tonight! (I believe this entails a
short video of me jacking up the Landie for a considerable amount of time, so I
am not looking forward to this ritual humiliation...)
Keiner has been managing the whole HCV programme, organising
all their inductions, and putting together the project packs (as well as teaching
us all how to sound really cool in Spanish!). And Andy's been helping us all out with anything we end up screaming for before his fellow PM's arrive tomorrow.
Finally, I believe Ross and Pedro have been doing some stuff too!
As well as whipping all of us into shape, they
have been busy putting together the projects and basically finalising the
master plan – all will be revealed!
As for me, well you’ve seen some of what I’ve been up to – I’ve
also been planning the magazine and the merchandise and basically putting
together a whole comms plan for the expedition, so we can keep you all up to
speed with what’s going on and make sure you all have some brilliant mementos
to keep afterwards.
If the first week’s anything to go by, I reckon it’s going to
be an expedition for us all to remember for the rest of our lives.
Roll on tomorrow!
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