So there are days when you count goats under a tree and then there are days like today.
Site visit from my PM this morning, counterpart is gone, and the supervisor is too busy since she is the only head nurse currently at the clinic and we had a lot of people this morning.
No big deal, meet with my PM and give him the clinic number so he can call later and conduct the interview over the phone.
Drive to the library to show them the future site for the tree nursery, am told by the head librarian that Bob Rothschild is coming for a visit at 2pm. Oh...you mean the multi millionaire who funded this whole library and 19 others like it around Botswana...YOU MEAN THAT BOB?!? Oh, cool.
While checking email before Bob's arrival, I receive the official notification that I am through the grant process with the tree nursery project and it has been posted online...with the wrong amount due to the fact that I put two lines of the budget under "grant money needed" instead of "community contribution." The grant posted online is now $50 more than it should be and I freak out that the One Acre people are going to think I am trying to pull one over on them.
100 emails later between our AMAZING WONDERFUL DPT (Director of Programming and Training) and I, and she says she will contact headquarters to try and get it fixed. My Dad also tells me to calm down, and that this is not something worth losing my head over (because he is also wonderful and amazing.)
Feel the need to write a blog post about this whole thing while waiting for Bob.
So Bob get here with his awesome wife Sara and I'm told I have to give a presentation on the tree nursery we just got funded. This is not at all an issue since I have been up to my eyeballs in this thing for the past two weeks. I give a nice little speech to Bob, Sara, the Library Board, about 30 students from the Junior Secondary School and Primary School and anyone else who decided to wander into the presentation.
Afterwards am approached by a community member who thinks we need a youth center in Rams, and since I got money for the library, I can help him write a grant too...right? SURE! LETS DO THIS! I warn him in advance I'm not extending for anything past my July date, but that I will help him gather information on possible donors and he can take it from there.
Back onto the email and the budget issues are still there, my DPT is working her butt off but the numbers just aren't meshing. I tell her I am going to take them home with me and figure it out.
*cracks knuckles and pretends like this is a normal...which it isn't*
Oh Peace Corps :)
Site visit from my PM this morning, counterpart is gone, and the supervisor is too busy since she is the only head nurse currently at the clinic and we had a lot of people this morning.
No big deal, meet with my PM and give him the clinic number so he can call later and conduct the interview over the phone.
Drive to the library to show them the future site for the tree nursery, am told by the head librarian that Bob Rothschild is coming for a visit at 2pm. Oh...you mean the multi millionaire who funded this whole library and 19 others like it around Botswana...YOU MEAN THAT BOB?!? Oh, cool.
While checking email before Bob's arrival, I receive the official notification that I am through the grant process with the tree nursery project and it has been posted online...with the wrong amount due to the fact that I put two lines of the budget under "grant money needed" instead of "community contribution." The grant posted online is now $50 more than it should be and I freak out that the One Acre people are going to think I am trying to pull one over on them.
100 emails later between our AMAZING WONDERFUL DPT (Director of Programming and Training) and I, and she says she will contact headquarters to try and get it fixed. My Dad also tells me to calm down, and that this is not something worth losing my head over (because he is also wonderful and amazing.)
Feel the need to write a blog post about this whole thing while waiting for Bob.
So Bob get here with his awesome wife Sara and I'm told I have to give a presentation on the tree nursery we just got funded. This is not at all an issue since I have been up to my eyeballs in this thing for the past two weeks. I give a nice little speech to Bob, Sara, the Library Board, about 30 students from the Junior Secondary School and Primary School and anyone else who decided to wander into the presentation.
Afterwards am approached by a community member who thinks we need a youth center in Rams, and since I got money for the library, I can help him write a grant too...right? SURE! LETS DO THIS! I warn him in advance I'm not extending for anything past my July date, but that I will help him gather information on possible donors and he can take it from there.
Back onto the email and the budget issues are still there, my DPT is working her butt off but the numbers just aren't meshing. I tell her I am going to take them home with me and figure it out.
*cracks knuckles and pretends like this is a normal...which it isn't*
Oh Peace Corps :)
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