Blogs from Essex, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 13

Hello Folk's, This is our first blog. So with one week left and an abundance of alcohol and inflatable animals as decoration our leaving party was ready. All our friends and family turned up to suitibly give us the "be carefull" and "come back in one piece" warnings whist also dancing like a pissed John Travolta to Saturday Night Fever, it was beautiful. It was a night of first's; with my 15 year old brother Tom's first drunken experience, suprisingly composed for his first piss up?! Also the first ever recorded dance off, in that village hall, between a 26 year old man (me) and a 6 year old girl (the camera busted during the previous dance off between us). Overall, as I think is pretty obvious in the pictures the party was a success thanks ... read more

2nd Briefing Weekend Our second meeting as Team Russia was in Chingford, Essex from the 3rd - 5th April. This was our opportunity to take our planning a lot further and make solid plans. We now each have our own training sessions to plan, badges to sell and fundraising to continue with. Although we still don't have much information from Russia, we are going ahead and making plans which can be altered accordingly if need be. So far we have 3 possible destinations where we will be camping for sometime. These are all in Southern Siberia - which apparently is suprisingly warm in the summer! Our training sessions will be on the following topics: Recruitment, Retention and PR (Anne and Rachel) Leadership, Development and Training (Jill and Susannah) and Healthy Lifestyles, Songs, Icebreakers and Games ... read more

For my pre Birthday celebrations I decided to hold a Murder Mystery. Everyone really pulled out the stops with the costumes, and the evening was a great laugh. The food went down well which was a relief, and I think everyone had a fun night. ... read more

Two weeks until we marry, and only four weeks until we fly!!!!!!... read more

07:30am Sunday 25th March 2009 "You got any rizzlas geez?" says the sunglass wearing fella in a hoarse voice that suggests he's made the most of his Saturday night. "Sorry mate, don't smoke" comes my reply. It gets me thinking that my hoodie,beanie hat and tracksuit bottom combo might be giving off the wrong impression of me. (Good thing I decided against the Burberry cap at the last minute before leaving the house!) Now this probably isn't the typical conversation you'd expect to have on a train with somebody at 07.30am Sunday morning on the way to Dartford. Then I suppose given the choice, most people wouldn't be heading to Dartford at any time of the day, much less 7.30am on a Sunday! I should probably start at the beginning (It's only an hour earlier after ... read more