Not long now until the main Footstep 11 conference programme kicks off. Yesterday, those youth who had already arrived spent the day with their respective host families. Morgan Phillips (the Footstep 11 Workshop co-ordinator) and his girlfriend Emma McQuillan arrived on campus, after spending 9 days on the north-east coast of Jamaica.
In the early afternoon, Desmond Campbell (the Jamaican Conference Co-ordinator) drove into Montego Bay to pick up some US arrivals (Jeff Murphy and Ian Goering from Cheltenham Township) and Koome Kirimi (a Kenyan youth living in Minnesota).
Meanwhile, Ania and Glenn Standish remained back on campus helping to put the finishing touches to the conference preparations. Glenn also spent much of the day tracking the arrival (or rather departure) of Kenyan facilitator Edwin Ochieng. Edwin's Air Jamaica plane was due to take off yesterday from Heathrow at 15.15 but was delayed a whopping 24 hrs due to engine trouble. His plane has literally just taken off 20 mins ago so by rough calculation should be arriving into Montego Bay about 18.00.
The remainder of the conference participants will all be dropped off at the college at about 15.00 when there will be registration and a tour of the campus and town. In the evening, there will be The Getting To Know You event followed by a screening of Al Gore's climate crisis documentary "An Inconvenient Truth".
Fabio Nasciamento from Baureri (Brazil) and Hanna Wisniewska from Torun (Poland) relax last night on the verandha at Moneague College
Some of the participants relax by playing cards on the verandha of the old Moneague Hotel on the college campus
Piotr Konstanty serves the tea at breakfast. Also pictured are Sergey Plystin (the Footstep 11 cameraman) and Morgan Phillips (Footstep 11 Workshop co-ordinator)
Glenn Standish in the 'Footstep 11 nerve centre' trying to check on the status of the Kenyans
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We're having a great time here,enjoying all the activities.The food is so good- but i never expected to complain about there being too much of it!They're feeding us like kings!The best thing is getting to know everyone from all the different countries-oh yeh and not to forget the music and the dancing on the party bus!
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