Preparation

Firstly, welcome to another one of my crazy adventures!
Incase you're unfamiliar with how this works, I update my blog, you visit my page and you'll see the most up-to-date entry. The posts go back in time the more you scroll down the page (and I've been a few places so they do go on!)
The entry below this one was a test - I can now send an email to this account from my wonderful iphone, so that I can update on the move! It's really quite cool! (Let's hope sending an email won't be too expensive when I'm in New Zealand!

So, here we are again.

29th June - 27th September 2009

I am blessed to be travelling to my favourite country, New Zealand, after visiting there just last year. When I arrived back, I started scrolling through websites, working out how I could get back again. Low and behold, I came across Logos: A Catholic Youth Work organisation who I emailed, told my life story, interests, academic qualifications and present circumstances to, and they invited me out to work for 3 months. Very very awesome indeed.

On Monday I'll leave London Heathrow and head on a very long long journey via Bangkok, Thailand, where I will land in Auckland, New Zealand. My plans are very much to involve myself as much as possible in all the activites with the organisation-not holding back-just enjoying every minute of it. There's the small chance I'll get moved to Wellington to work for a little while, but that's not set in stone. I also have a friend from Greenock currently living and working in Queenstown (south on the south island) (also my favourite town in New Zealand), so I'm hoping to visit her and go snowboarding for a weekend or two. I also have 2 friends who I'd love to catch up with, both living in Sydney Australia - if funds permit, I'm hoping to meet them for a weekend, but that almost certainly is far from 'definite'!

So here lies my plans. I know it's going to be an amazing experience, no matter what I get up to. The weather should be very Greenock-Autumn-esque (rain, but not too cold).

Hopefully the next entry you'll see will be from New Zealand

God Bless and lots of love!
Cx

It's been a wee while since I last updated. And unfortunately all the photos didn't load so there's only a few of where I live on my online photo album. Don't worry, when I get home I'll get all 600 odd photos up!!

Since my last entry me and the girls have been travelling into Mbarara most days to teach the kids. I've taught a bit of Religion, a whole lesson on English (which was a bit crazy cause English grammar isn't my strong point), I also taught Art and helped the kids draw a branch of a tree - they were all so eager to see my drawing show me theirs. And I also taught North American Geography to the first years, but I don't think they understood me too well!

We went into the primary school yesterday and sat in on one of their Science lessons, we were happy to spectate than teach as their English isn't very good; the girls don't feel comfortable teaching the primary kids so they'll be teaching sports and music to them instead of english, maths etc.

Today we're going into the secondary school to do sports and games with them, but not til later.

So I'm getting ready for leaving on Tuesday - not physically, but more mentally. I've enjoyed every bit of this trip; I've loved spending time with the kids and trying to help them in class with English and everything else. I've enjoyed my time with the girls and the people in the community - getting to know people and their culture.

My one thing I wish I could have done was go to a safari park and see some animals, but the girls said it's too expensive for fuel, plus we never got the jeep back so the car wouldn't be able to make the trip. They said that on the way to the airport I may see some elephants, so I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Tomorrow we're going to the high school as it's one of the girls birthdays, so I think there'll be a wee party of some sort. Should be fun!

Right, that's enough for one day, speak soon,

God Bless xx

See the itinerary of this trip, and details about each destination.

Leaving tonight, byeee!
God Bless x

Hi again! It's not long before I get back from Australia that I announce another excursion to a far-flung part of the world. On Tuesday I'm off to Mbarara, Uganda. I'll be gone for 3 weeks, and I'll be helping teach orphans and x-child soldiers music, art, sport and hopefully a little bit of religion (English and Maths they already get taught).

I'm not sure of the internet connection in the place I'm staying at, but my friends Elisa and Louise who are already out there have been sending emails, so I'm pretty sure I'll get online to update this blog.

I'll be able to tell you more when I'm there, so stay tuned!

God Bless,
Cheryl

I’m off travelling in less than 5 weeks (New Zealand and Australia) and instead of updating blogs on livejournal, bebo, myspace and facebook, I thought it best to add stuff to the one page. I can also add images very easily, so you can all have a look and see what I’ve been up to. You can subscribe to this blog which will send an email to you to let you know I've updated with a new entry - pretty clever and saves you repeatedly checking every day ('cause I know what you're all like!). Just save this link, and I’ll try update as often as I can.

The next time you hear from me I'll be on the other side of the world in the height of winter!

God Bless x