So. It's been a while since I updated, but things have been plodding along - both GOLD-wise and life-wise! I started work again, so GOLD got put on the backburner a little bit while I settled in, but now I'm back and bursting into action - just in time for GOLD briefing number 2 at the weekend! We've had two conference calls to plan for the briefing as the team have to come up with an interactive presentation about Latvia, and an activity for the evening entertainment... The theme is BIG BROWNIE BIRTHDAY (it's 100 years of Brownies in case you didn't know!), and so each GOLD team is running a Brownie Badge - we're doing the Swimmer badge, and we're very excited! I'll write more about that after the weekend, I don't want to give too much away!
The conference calls have been a bit of a challenge - you try finding a time when 6 people are free to chat, when two of them work 9-5 office jobs, one is a nurse working shifts, one works freelance, one works nights at weekends, and one is me who works all sorts of times! Unsurprisingly, we haven't managed it yet, but we're having calls with the majority, and filling the rest in afterwards - everyone has managed at least one of the two so far, so that's good! I think finding times to organise will be the biggest challenge for our team.
In other news, I am back on the fundraising - I have managed to organise a sponsored abseil on May 12th - I am going to be abseiling for a whole hour, constantly up and down the 40ft tower at PGL Caythorpe Court. I'm hoping to do 40 descents during the hour, and any sponsorships over £10 can suggest things for me to do whilst abseiling - perhaps the YMCA, or the cha cha slide (not sure how I'll do that one, but you can suggest it!)... the more original the better, and as long as it's safe, I'll give it a go! I'm also hoping to film a lot of it, and create a video at the end to prove to everyone that I did it! (As long as the camera batteries last...)
If you would like to sponsor me, you can do so at my justgiving page or by speaking to me directly. I need to raise approximately £2000, and I've got around about £800 so far, so please help out!
That's all for now... more next week all about second briefing!
