Lisa in Mauritius: My first week

My first week got better every day. In the organization everybody tries to speak English with me, even the patients J I also get more involved in the team and the things they are doing. On Wednesday we had a kind of briefing and now I know what’s wrong with the patients and how their situation can be improved. On Tuesday Margot arrived from Delft and on Thursday Jessica arrived from Germany. They are really cool and we have a lot of fun together J even when we do the shopping or cleaning the house :D

Thursday it was Margot’s birthday and we had a little party here with cake and drinks. My work sucked on Saturday. This day children came from the SOS village and they were only talking creoles. So I couldn’t communicate with them because they can’t speak or understand English. Furthermore, it was just a way to entertain them. So it’s nothing where I can learn or profit from. Moreover it has been a different team and they couldn’t really speak English as well. That’s why I ask my ‘boss’ Géraldine If it’s ok that I work from Monday till Friday.

On Saturday evening we had a cultural diner at our place. Jessica and I made real German potato salad yummi. Margot made Dutch pancakes. Zuhayr bought some Mauritian food and the Indians cook really good Indian food. Everything was sooooo tasty J And we have still some food left! Later on we went to an ‘Aiesec-After-Conference-Pool-Party’ in a hotel which really sucked. But nevertheless, we met an Indian Bollywood film producer and regisseur and party of his crew. And the best thing was that they invited us (Margot, Jessica and me) to do scuba diving (you sit like on a motorbike, which can go under water, 3m, and you drive on your own and see all the underwater world) Actually it’s really expensive but we’ll get it for free J Later we went to another club which was really good. But when we wanted to left some guys were missing and so we had to call, and call again and wait for like an hour before we could go home…

Today we went with the Indians to Casela, this is a park were you can watch animals, and most of all birds. This was really cool. They had monkey, zebras, really old and big turtles, … there and we were able to touch them! Moreover you can go there for a safari and walk with lions. That’s on the top of our weekend plannings ;)

Margot's birthday