Day 0At five o'clock in the morning, a large white tourist bus had stopped in front of the Dar El Manara hotel. An elegant young woman in her thirties, dressed all in white, got off. In the hotel lobby, she had called Louis Willems, Imène Touati and Olivia Roy. Obviously, none of the three knew each other. The hotel porters had loaded the luggage into the bus while Louis, Imène and Olivia took their seats. They greeted the twenty or so people already on the bus. The bus then continued on its journey to three other nearby hotels, thus completing the number of passengers, which finally reached 12 people in addition to the driver and the young woman who was about to speak. "Hello and welcome to Tunisia to all of you. I am Saïda Ayari, I am 32 years old and I am Tunisian by origin. I am also the director of the training centre "Le nouveau regard" which will welcome you for the next three weeks. First of all, I would like to ask you to forgive us for all these mysteries that you have been facing for several days. Without you knowing it, it is your training that has already begun. You have already abandoned everything that was familiar, easy and comfortable. You have already dared to take a leap of faith to cross the world to an unknown destination. You have already trusted life and seized one of its offers. Already you are not quite the same, and believe me, this is only the beginning. Before we partially lift the veil on the rest of the day, you should know that in this bus, you are 17 women and 16 men, you come from Canada, France, Russia, the United States, Belgium, Switzerland, Ivory Coast, New Caledonia, Madagascar or Lebanon and you are all French-speaking. The Flower of Life blooms each of you with 3 petals. You have all chosen to participate in this training despite the mysteries and uncertainties that surround it. Half of you are WesMart® employees, and the other half come from other companies, but also from the political world or from national or international organisations. You work in a variety of roles, from cleaner to department manager, from production worker to manager to minister. We do not care about your gender, your nationality, your origin or your function. Where we are going, we will take only your name. We are now crossing the island of Djerba to reach the ferry that will take us to the mainland. This can take between 1 and 3 hours, nobody knows. Then we will drive southwest for about 4 hours to the town of Douz at the edge of the desert. From there, we will take place in a dozen 4x4 which, after 3 hours of track, will take us to the heart of the Sahara, more precisely in the big Erg. In the middle of the afternoon, we will arrive at our training centre Inch Allah.
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