We had our first team phone conference at the weekend - after a few hitches with the connection at the start, we soon managed to get deep into discussion about second briefing and the next stages in our planning.
Each member of the team updated the rest of us on their progress so far with fundraising and GOLD preparations. Everyone is doing so well! Ruth has been giving talks to groups about Malawi and her trip last year with Team Malawi 2014, Alice has been selling note cards and setting up the social media for the team, Andreah has been bag packing with her Guides, Emily has been arranging some local fundraising events and preparing an article about GOLD to go in her local newspapers, M has been networking and making plans for a craft day fundraiser and Louise has been gathering donations far and wide for herself as well as preparing some group applications for the team. So much progress since first briefing - well done everyone!
After the first draft of our badge design being sent back to us from Trading (the people in Girlguiding who check our design to make sure it fits with Girlguiding regulations and then produce the badge) we have discussed a few alterations which have been confirmed so we are VERY close to releasing the badge design to you! (I did badger Ruth a few times to let me release it but we have to make sure it is right first!)
We have also been discussing our team kit, which will be our uniform whilst training on project. After much hilarity over the sizes at first briefing (finding a top that is long enough to fit Alice, Louise and Emily that doesn't look like a dress on Andreah, M and Ruth is apparently more challenging than we thought) we now need to come to a decision over what brands and sizes we want so we can get things ordered.
Preparing our evening entertainment for the other teams at second briefing was the next topic of discussion, but more on that later!
After an update on how people feel about doing onward travel after project, we sent Ruth away so we could discuss our interactive session for second briefing - a session for all the other teams that we have to plan without the help of Ruth, but again all will be revealed in due course...
GOLD love,
Alice and Team Malawi x
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