Wykeham Arms Winchester

... school, and then going to tour round afterwards. Not 100% sure yet but will definately be doing Kerela and then North India.

Thanks to Brother Hasslehoff (Jennys brother) I have this funky blog thing so you all can sleep well at night knowing that my organs havent been sold on the black market for 100 rupees a piece.

Enjoy :)

Nimita

xxx

Today several Trussell Trust staff and volunteers have bruised upper arms from loading hundreds of boxes filled with a reocrd breaking 3800+ Christmas Shoeboxes onto a rather large lorry... The bruises were worth it to see the lorry pull away and begin its 2,450km trip to Bulgaria to transform thousands of Christmases.

We have to say a huge thankyou to all those who donated boxes and to all those hardy souls who braved the cold in ...

... to hotel in Amsterdam
- Hair straightening and Christmas Ho Ho Ho dress on bus in Amsterdam - all you people out there know what this means!!
- Booth of Truth
- "Secrets" game
- "Mopping" up - All you peeps out there knows what this means!
- Getting stuck in Anna and Adrian´s room, and Adrian offering a string of tied up bed sheets to help me escape from the window
- Getting into trouble from a man in jocks in the hall of our hotel for making too ...

... commenced our trip back to Reading on the trains. It was sooo good to finally arrive back at Mat and Jo´s. Mat ordered us pizza whilst we told stories about the people we had met and the places we had been to. We were so exhausted we had the best night´s sleep ever!

But it wasn´t for long! Up again at 8am to get through the mountains of laundry, posting stuff home, buying christmas trees from B ...

Hello,

Basically just testing to see if this works, and also cos Rhys told me to do this now. Also, I wanted Alton to appear as a little dot on our map thing. Anyways, we're off on sunday, looking forward to it, and I'm sure we'll miss you all! Bye for now!

Dave

Booked flight today - Guatemala on Feb 22nd 2010. So to mark the occasion I thought I'd start my travel diary today as well.

Two months to go - and a lot of list-making, planning, shopping, getting vaccinated, freaking out, and bouncing with excitement to do!

... was also quite useful to have the English woman there, to discuss the differences to the system I was used to.

On Tuesday, November 10th, my former host-Rotary Club from exchange, the Rotary Club of Genk, was holding their largest fundraising event of the year, Rotary Folies, an evening of fine food and pop/jazz music. It's a big night, with fantastic buffet food and wine, and this year's lead act was a Belgian pop/soft rock singer whom everybody seemed to know called Milow. My ...

... and we're still struggling to understand what happened three years later, so I will leave that part untold. As I was approaching my 30's I wrote a list of things to change before I was 40, this list consisted of: Find the courage to leave my marriage Find happiness Find a job that I enjoy Stop letting people irritate me over petty things Learn how to say no to people Find what is missing from my life Try and let go of the past There were ...

... movie :). We got up to go pick up her parents in Salisbury and went for a walk were it hailed on us and went to a place that was an old mill and ate lunch with some of her parents friends. Then walking back it hailed on us again and was freezing. We went back to Heathers place and we played games and had a great time. Her mom even bought me a chocolate Easter egg (those are huge here and in every store in ...

... you stick to the wall, in more civilized terms, at least 25 feet in diameter. The hall it was in was on the top of one of Winchester's hills(it is a hill to valley city) and outside there was a section of the old below the street tunnels that you could walk in(for a very brief time, but still kinda cool). Finally, enough sites had been seen and we had lunch at (where else in England) a pub by the river, and briefly visited its working flourmill powered by the ...