Learning curve

Day 25.
Yesterday was a hard day for us here. We experienced the not always nice side of the policy makers when met by a creative project. We had initially agreed to deliver a workshop for 30 children and that the host organization was to gather the making materials under the theme of recycling. However, when we arrived at the school, the number of participants had doubled, we were put in a room that could hardly even contain 30 children, and to make it worst, they did not provide enough materials for every kid to make their own puppet. We tried our best and managed to make something out of the imposed situation, but we left the school drained and not feeling very satisfied.

In the future, we hope to have learned that if the necessary conditions are not met by the host organization, then it is better to cancel the workshop. It remains the case between quality and quantity, and at the end of the day, the facilitator is the person who can make the informed decision of what is feasible and what it is not.

Our last lesson from yesterday, taught us to beware of the so called 'gentlemen's agreements' because as we now know, sometimes liars like to think of themselves as gentlemen.