My notebook reads Day 16. It feels like only yesterday I remember everyone in this sending group sharing our hopes and fears, and introducing each other and getting to know who each other is.
One of the facilitators mentioned that EWB uses the “firehose model” of learning. Everything we can possible do in 1 month:
· Simulating meetings with development agencies
· understanding what we define as poverty
· Attempting to change each other’s behaviors within the month
· Designing intervention projects and presenting our ideas to potential funders
· Having interviews, drop-ins to organizations, calls, research in Toronto in a span of 5 hours to come up with an answer to an assigned question related to poverty in the city.
· Capacity Building
and that’s less than half of everything theoretical we did so far.
On the practical side, my vaccinations are complete, my travelers diarrhea & cholera vaccine will be done this week and I have enough things for a month long expedition …. The guys at Mountain Equipment Co-op are starting to recognize me as the guy going to Zambia for a year.
We’re on our last few intense workshops and assignments that I expect to make me pull at least 1 all nighter this week (if I’m lucky)… and I’m not even “on-the-ground” yet.
Joanne and I, Team Zambia, departs in 5 days. It’s going to be an intense year. 
