Day 12: Training!
Today it was back to training indoors haha! My morning was filled with more brilliant cleaning! I listened to my music whilst I vacuumed the entire Main Chalet and then mopped Main Chalet. I did learn about something new during the morning: Eurovision! I had never heard of it before but it is a huge competition in Europe. Basically, all of the countries pick an unknown band or singer to perform one song and represent their country. All of the countries in Europe compete and the final competition is soon to see who wins. After each country representative (s) perform, people call in to vote but they can't vote for their country. Apparently the voting is very political and most countries vote for their neighboring countries. Something to look forward to!

After cleaning, I was feeling a little tired and not awesome so I spent some time outside before lunch. After lunchtime, we had a Health and Safety Training with Koka, the Deputy World Centre Manager. Koka went over how to stay healthy (drink lots of water, sleep, sunblock), fire drill procedure and the duty phone. The duty phone is similar to the RA duty phone. The person who has the duty phone gets it after dinner and takes any call throughout the night (which there are not many) and there is a senior staff also on call as a reference (like the Residence Director (RD) on duty).  When answering the phone, I have to answer with "Our Chalet, this is Paige, how may I help you?" I might automatically answer with "BCG Cluster officer, this is Paige, how may I help you?" instead if I am half-asleep haha.

I was on dinner prep and clean-up again but Katy was back from her days off. I helped do random jobs again and then I and summer vollie Cate spent some time in the food pantry putting away the giant food order that just came in. The food delivered was stacked in the middle of the food pantry which is a small-ish room so the boxes took up a majority of space. We were working and suddenly Katy burst through the door telling us that the dinner bell had rung! We hadn't even heard the bell and probably would have kept working through dinner if we hadn't been told haha.

At 8pm, we had our first program with guests....camp fire! Earlier in the day we had planned out songs to do and who would help set it up, etc. We had guests who arrived from Germany and a few guests who arrived the day before from Bath, UK. The campfire went well and I learned some more interesting songs! I also learned the German version of "Down by the Banks" game which is cool except that I can't remember the words anymore. One of my favorites from the night was a song about fishing from Australia (I knew a similar version) because it involved some dancing! Another favorite was a song from Israel that was a quieter yet beautiful song and I hope to learn it by the end of the summer. The guests left after an hour but the summer vollies we stuck around until the fire died down. We talked about a slight issue with our living situation in the attic. I have learned the true meaning of a popular bedtime phrase (aside from sweet dreams). I slept in the WAGGGS room last night though I was woken up at 6am by a thunder of bells. When I looked out the window, there was a line of cows being led up the mountain and the bells were from the bells that they wear.

Thanks for reading!