After a teary goodbye, we left the school at 1pm ready for our long day of travel. We started off on our way to oxford services to stretch our legs and have something to eat, we then made our way down to Heathrow where an excruciating wait was before us.
Having arrived at the airport 4-5 hours before our boarding
we had to find ways to entertain each other. Stella, Erin, Eve and Izzy played
each other at Snakes and Ladders and Dobble which got extremely competitive.
Me, Jess and Isabelle went for many walks around the airport and judged the
expensive perfumes by their smell, we went into shops like Gucci, Chanel and
Louis Vuitton to guess prices on different items. And then the time finally
came to board our flight at 21:35 we even got to take off early thankfully.
We then had to endure our 11-hour flight, the range of
movies made sure we were entertained despite the
slight discomfort of my legs being too big to fit behind the chair. I didn’t
get to sleep until after our first meal came, we had the choice of tomato pasta
or sausage and mash, I chose the pasta which was very cheesy - on the tray was
also; bread, crackers, cheese and a chocolate moose which arrived to us around 00:30
which felt a bit weird. I watched a film which eventually sent me into a doze. Our
next meal was breakfast around 7 am where we had the choice of sausage and eggs
or waffles. I chose the waffles which were delicious!
In our very hot minibus, I sat next to Jess who used me as a human pillow, and on our way to Hands at Work we stopped off at a service stations which had Rhinos and Gazelles!
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| Can you spot the Rhino? |
We ate some food where most of us had KFC (Jess did not enjoy despite it being her very first KFC ever) and then we carried on. At last we got to Hands at Work and we’ve all settled in and replenished with the lovely lasagne that was cooked for us!
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| A delicious meal to welcome us after our long journey |
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The Hands at Work in Africa Hub - home for the next two weeks |
-Eleanor Cowing