Met up with my fellow advance team volunteers today and we were taken to a local British School to spend the night.   Was not looking forward to sleeping on the floor but turns out they had nice padded mattresses.  Also assumed it had hot showers as there were two taps in the shower - hot and cold right - no cold and cold!  One is from the mains water supply and the other from a tank on the roof that collects rainwater.   We were up at 45am to start the journey to Turrialba where the Raleigh International base camp is located.

Not so hard floors!

We were up at 45am to start the journey to Turrialba where the Raleigh International base camp is located.  The base is on a farm and consists of a main office building and CasaBlanca, which is a small house where we will be sleeping.

My bunk room

Main office building

Outside classroom

My fellow volunteers - Three are DOCs - Deputy Operations Controllers looking after volunteer manager training and smooth running of the program and two Logistics - ensuring the food, equipment and materials are coordinated and supplied for volunteer teams at their project sites.

My fellow "Advance Team Volunteers"

We have 6 days of training ahead of the volunteer managers arriving.  My role is to get all the necessary food ordered for field base and the three phases - Trek, Natural Resource Mgt and Community Projects and ensure each team has the right tools and comms equipment.  Food is made a little more challenging with preferences (vegan, vegetarian, etc) and allergies.  

Kitchen

Our office areas

Inside classroom