Day 475 – We have another trip to a destination as part of our training in the Tour Directors Course. And for each such tour we need someone to coordinate all the details, basically doing the job of a TD for the day. So I volunteered to do that for the next trip, in three weeks. I talked to the one who did it for the last trip and she said it is a lot of work. I hope it won’t be too much for me, after all I do coordination of tours as my job, almost every day, even if not to the same level of details. One thing for sure, the coming 3 weeks are going to be crazy amount of work for me at work so I hope I didn’t take too much, but worst case scenario, I’ll appoint someone as my assistant and delegate some of the work. But I figured, it is a good practice and I can do it under the guidance of our instructor – what a better way to learn the intricacies of the job. It is also a test for me to make sure I can do it and I enjoy it, again in the friendliest environment. So I see no down side to it, except for the overload I am in right now, but hey, that’s part of the fun as well; again, it mimics real life situations. So tonight I already started, by creating the most updated mailing list and sending an email to everyone with all the topics we have to present during the day and asked everyone to sign up for a topic. In the next few days I’ll have to create a plan the trip in details, minute by minute and arrange visits to all the different places, walks, stops etc. I am so excited about that!!
I am thankful I get to do this job of being the tour director for a full day, as training and under supervision. I am thankful for my friends who are so willing to help in any way and I know they will make it as easy and painless as possible. I am thankful for a very interesting lesson today about preparing a trip that taught me so much about how to prepare for my final project. I am thankful to my friend for a very kind phone call today, for the trust he placed in me.
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