Chapter 7...The Training - P2V (Preparing to Volunteer!)

So the date was set and in just over a month's time I would be meeting some fellow volunteers at P2V training! Before this we had to meet online and take part in a three week online course, which started September 15th and finished October 6th. The idea of this was for the 20+ volunteers to 'get-to-know-eachother' as much as is ever possible online before we were thrown together for three days in Birmingham!

The course consisted of many e-tivities involving posting comments of our own and responding to those from others! It was pretty clear very early on that we were a great bunch of people who were going to get on well when we met, but there were going to be differences in opinions that could create some interesting debates...!

Another most unexpected thing that came out of this online course was Daniel, who I never in a million years expected to meet, let alone fall in love with! But as is the case with every great love story, things were not simple...Daniel lived in Germany and was leaving for a six month placement in Cambodia at the end of November, which gave us two months to spend as much time together making memories for when we were apart!

So then came P2V, which was an intense weekend of learning the positives and negatives of being a volunteer overseas! It was a very realistic insight into what life would be like in a new country and also to what leaving life as we know it behind would really feel like! However as we all know, no amount of preparation can really get you ready for such a huge change that will impact life after that forever!