This morning Ellen and Nick are sick. They started feeling sick yesterday at Kakum and they were both still not up to par as of this morning. It’s funny because whenever people are sick people here just assume you have malaria even if the symptoms aren’t even close to those of malaria. I hope Ellen and Nick are feeling better tomorrow. Its way more fun at the office when everyone is here together and we can bounce ideas around.
Once we got to work we put our trend forecasting on hold so that we could fold the products that are going to be shipped on Friday. There are so many to fold. It seems like the pile is never ending. As soon as it looks like were starting to make a dent more items are being piled on top. Before doing this I had no appreciation for the fact that every time you get something in the bag, someone had to put it there.
It also seems crazy to me that we have to put each individual garment in its own bag. To me it is so important for companies to be sustainable. These plastic bags are very wasteful. Apparently they don’t have to bag everything for most companies but the customer who purchases the largest orders is really particular about how their garments are shipped. Apparently that company is not very environmentally friendly.
Sarah, Karla and I taught a folding workshop today. It is important that each garment is folded the same way and then placed into the same size bag so everything is consistent. We taught the people who work in quality control a good way to fold different garments so they fit correctly into each bag. Although folding isn’t very difficult, the people here are not very precise so it makes it harder for them to understand the concept that everything should look the same.
We also talked about what deadlines we have coming up. All of our trend forecasting as well as sketches of new products are due next Tuesday. There are new designers as well as other volunteers coming on Monday, and so on Tuesday afternoon were going to do a presentation to give them our ideas. This will help make sure we are all on the same page.
We also are going to start splitting up into small groups. With more and more people coming its going to start to get pretty crazy and if we all tried working on the same projects I don’t think we would ever get anything done because everyone has a different opinion about how to do the same task. Also, there is not a lot of space at the office, so when we split up into groups some groups can stay at the house and work on things like sketching and pattern making. Sarah thinks we should still rotate coming to the office and staying at home just to make everything fair.
After work Sarah and I went to the pool at the resort across the street. It was so nice to not be covered in sweat and be covered in chlorine instead for a while. It is really so nice having the pool across the street. It’s like an escape for the reality that is Ghana. We said we were going to tread water to exercise but I think mostly we just used that as an excuse to veg out at the pool.
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