Ruben bloggar frå turar, innland og utland: Lusaka

Busy start of the new year

I arrived Lusaka 3 weeks ago, and I’ve been very busy, unfortunately it’s all in the office though. We are arranging Inter Company Relay in June, which is a big event here in Lusaka, and there are a lot of preparations for that. So I’ve been in the office working on my laptop. BUT I have also been doing some other work, which will make me a lot more active soon. I got the responsibility to make sure the Kids Athletic Project is going well, so basically I contact those PE Teachers who were at our course in December. I make sure they hold workshops for other PE teachers in their district. I also ask if they want my assistance, so I can come to their district to observe and help out. This is really cool, because it means I can travel around Zambia at the same time as I’m working.

Not every day goes as planned
Not every day goes as planned. Friday I came back to the office after visiting the Norwegian Embassy (for waffles and brown cheese!) around lunchtimes, and then I was asked to come to OYDC. So I did, I went to the stadium there to help out on an event. I didn’t even know we held an event on that day. Well, at least I got to do something outside.
And today I got a call from one of the staff while I was at the gym (at 9 AM) saying they all went to a workshop, so I could go there and pick up the keys. Not that I got any work planned.

I finished a whole FM season with Sogndal. Won the Premiership (8^th years in a row, baby) and qualified for the group stage in Champions League).

Spare time
Since I came from my holiday I told myself not to eat or drink any sweets, which I haven’t done yet. “Yay for me!” I’m also trying to work out every day, so I can get fit for summer. It’s less than 4 months until my journey home, so I have to be strict if I want to achieve my goals.

This weekend I went to OYDC to run a few laps (work off some of that chocolate I ate in Seychelles) and it was a couple of nice days. The cool thing was that: When I got to the stadium there was no kids at the track, but the moment I started running a bunch of kids came to join me. I ran intervals (which means I ran short and fast), and the kids ran like crazy until they got tired, but I wasn’t left alone, because then a bunch of other kids came and joined me. It went fine as long as they didn’t fell in the middle of my lane (which they liked doing for fun). They also asked me “How are you?!” and “You are sweating, are you ok?!” a lot.

At my “compound/neighbourhood” there are some small kids that I started talking to one day, and one of them is so small I can easily lift him up and spin him around. After I did this they always come running at me when they see me coming home from work, asking me to spin them.

Postcards
During my holiday I sent a lot of postcards, mainly to my 5 year old nephew and family at home. I haven’t sent a card since, but on Saturday I sent a couple of letters, hopefully some of my readers here will receive one of them.