DRC Photos
Some photographs from my trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo last month are up in a flickr set now. Here’s a small glimpse of the trip…
Gap Year That Makes A Difference
What other Gap year dresses you up as a fairy, flies you across the world, puts you at the heart of the issues it works on, gives you access to political leaders, has you camping outside student unions in cardboard boxes and filming and writing resources? But not in that order…
Jim, one of my amazing gap year colleagues, wrote a great piece over on the Christian Aid Learn website describing his experiences of the gap year so far. You can read the article here.
It’s also pretty cool to see my photographs on the website! The two photos used in the article were taken by me during our trip to the DRC last month.
Have I mentioned that I love my job?!
Positive+
I’m hosting a gig tomorrow night to mark the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. It’s in Bloc (Bath St, Glasgow) from 9pm, costs £4, and features music from the delightful Yvonne Lyon, Ben TD, and the Potential Strangers. How’s that for your money’s worth! Come along, bring yer mates, and lets raise some funds for Christian Aids vital work on the HIV/AIDS pandemic!
Any Glasgow-ish bloggers wanna re-post the flyer on their site for me?! Thanks!
A Week In The Life
The past three weeks since I returned from the DRC have quite possibly been the busiest three weeks of my life! Work has been hectic (my own fault tho – learning time management skills!), and has pretty much been my life.
Thought I’d give you a glimpse of my last two weeks…
- Spent a day in school doing HIV peer education;
- Rearranged our office layout entirely;
- Hung out with Jacob, a Dutch friend I meet in Uganda;
- Lead two sessions looking at climate change & its impacts on poverty with youth groups in Banchory;
- Got to share a bit about blogging during a Platform2 Connect day;
- Had a DRC trip debriefing day in London, looking at what resources we’ll create from our trip;
- Ran our DRC photo exhibition in London;
I’ve spent a lot of time on trains… In fact, Wednesday was spent entirely on trains, with a brief 2 hours in between to get changed & pick up stuff from the office, before getting on another one. It’s been great – I really love my job – but it’s so tiring. I ended up taking yesterday off and having a PJ day, was totally wiped.
Work…
Today was the first time in weeks that I have worked a Saturday daytime- have been working evenings a lot due to commitments with my Exodus team. The restaurant was soo slow today, not that I’m complaining mind you, was quite a nice day. Plus I was really tired today due to too many late nights, so it was nice to not be stretched!
(P.S. – I know the picture is random, I was in a very artsy mood when I took it!)
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