Our last weekend in Latvia has been hectic!! After meeting with 1st Riga on Friday night, we jumped on a train and headed to Juanogre, where Liga's sister and grandma live. They very kindly let us take over their living room and kitchen for the weekend! After cooking up some fajitas, we headed to bed ready for a busy day on Saturday.
We were up at 8, had pancakes and cleared up a bit, and out the door by 9.15. Alice, Laura and Net headed to Kegums, a town nearby. In Kegums they have a unit already but had been into the school to do a bit of recruiting. We were heading to the event they had set up for potential new kids! Although there went many there we had a great time telling them about WAGGGS and WOSM and all sorts of good stuff!! Afterwards, we headed back to Ogre via the hydroelectric dam - apparently the highlight of Kegums!
In the meantime, Toni, Lizzie and Sarah went back to Liga's unit for the second time. They played some more get to know you games for the new ones, as well as a couple of wide games. It was awesome to see some familiar faces and Liga told us that all the new cubs, brownies, scouts and guides had kept coming back after our first meeting with them two weeks ago - Yay!
Lunch time saw us munching more Latvian food in Ogre, followed by a chat with a Rover and older Guide in a fabulous little tea room whilst Liga had a parents meeting. Then back to Juanogre for last minute prep before the Rangers appeared!
With the Rangers, we ran some body confidence activities, which was really interesting - particularly comparing the differences between the UK and Latvia. After the serious stuff, we let them loose in the kitchen with all of our leftover food from the last three weeks. 50 minutes later, they were serving a yummy 3 course meal, including garlic bread and tuna salad starter, vegetable and bean casserole with chicken mince for the non-vegetarians, with tortillas and pitta breads on the side, followed by ice cream, baked apple and chocolate for dessert! We were all very satisfied after! The Rangers kindly left us a mountain of washing up to do before we went to bed - pretty sure they used every item of crockery in the house - thanks girls!
More pancakes followed on Sunday morning (the Rangers hadn't managed to use all the flour and eggs - what a shame!) and back to Riga we went. During the afternoon we planned for our evaluation and this evening found us in a restaurant surrounded by paper, burgers, pens, chips, post-it-notes, and dips! The evaluation went really well and we all found positives in things we hadn't even considered before! Both the UK and the Latvian members came away with some plans for future projects - whether that's GOLD, on a national level or just simple things they can do in their units!
One more full day in Riga and lots to do, so it's off to bed now in preparation!!
GOLD love,
Team Latvia x
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