{"id":153,"date":"2014-04-19T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-04-19T17:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T17:45:46","slug":"day-6-departure-to-francistown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/2014\/04\/19\/day-6-departure-to-francistown\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 \u2013 Departure to Francistown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tIn the early hours of Saturday morning an emotional goodbye took place at The Stay Easy Inn in Gaborone. Tom and Meng said goodbye to the remaining 7 CWB volunteers as they boarded the bus to Francistown in the able hands of our new driver KB.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe team faced a gruelling drive of 6-7 hours across Botswana assisted by Carls hits form the 80s and Simon&rsquo;s conspiracy theories of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<a href=\"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/Departure.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Departure\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-154\" height=\"223\" src=\"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/Departure-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/Departure-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/files\/2014\/04\/Departure.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe team will meet up with local Botswana coach Clem then make their way to the Woodlands Lodge. With Tim &lsquo;magic&rsquo; Ward now in charge of provisions for week 2 it will be Fray Bentos pies and Jonny Walker all round, if he can get the whip off team accountant Ken. The team will spend week 2 in Francis town training teachers and visiting school spreading the CWB joy and message of HIV and Aids awareness.&nbsp; The team will also be meeting up with a local HIV organisation Top Bannana as well as visiting a school for the Deaf.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFinal blog entry from Tom here as I will be departing tomorrow AM back to England and have to say I&rsquo;m truly gutted to be leaving 8 inspirational and new friends behind. It has been a pleasure to go on my first CWB trip with such a great team and I&rsquo;m now motivated to go back to the UK and work up our plans for the upcoming trip in October 2014 and Spring 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest wishes in week 2 guys and beware the black Mamba&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of Saturday morning an emotional goodbye took place at The Stay Easy Inn in Gaborone. Tom and Meng said goodbye to the remaining 7 CWB volunteers as they boarded the bus to Francistown in the able hands of our new driver KB. The team faced a gruelling drive of 6-7 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/botswana14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}