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Monday Jul 07, 2008

A little introduction is in order.

Hello all,

I'm an 18 year old female who, having just left college and reluctant to speed off to university, is embarking on her gap year. Of course, the clever thing to do would be to get a shop job or bar work and earn as much money as physically possible to fund my travels - But that wouldn't satisfy my self-imposed criteria of a "fun and varied" gap year.

So, despite the inevitable complaints my bank account will be making a few months down the line, I'm spending my summer volunteering at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, working eight to twelve hour shifts everyday in return for accommodation and free access to the shows.

I'm not new to volunteering. For my Gold Millennium Volunteer award, I wrote for a magazine called Evolve, taught Tae Kwon Do to schoolchildren, spent two weeks at the Vitalise holiday centre for disabled people and raised funds for WarChild as part of the Envision committee. However, this is the first time I'm volunteering for my own selfish enjoyment and I'm looking forward to it!

Over the next few weeks, I'll be updating this diary with photographs and hopefully videos of my experience at the Fringe, as I spend six weeks building theatre sets, helping with drama rehearsals and hanging out with dance troupes before we tear the whole place down again, ready for next year.

Take care, Mei

Posted by Mei ( 2:09 PM )
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