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Wednesday Aug 02, 2006

holiday Club '06 + FUNDRAISING!

well still fundraising...what a suprise eh?! But also been doing something new. My local church have a holiday club every year. It runs for a week with activities from 10 till about 12.30/1pm and we have kids from 4-8. Ive been volunteering there since monday, and I just love it. I get to wear a snazzy t-shirt...ok sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but there you go. what I love is the kids. When we all move off to do different activities I go help with craft, which lets me get really messy! Yesterday we were making trumpets, and so we all smeared glue everywhere and made everything multi-coloured! Ive been helping out for a few years, but every year it shocks me how much I enjoy it.

As Im sure everyone in a dull job understands; I get really down hearted with the monotony, I enjoy clothes but after 8 hours of advising what colour suits people best, I must admit I couldnt care less what they wear or buy, so its a great relief to spend some time doing something I truely love, and that represents a future to me. I really want to become a teacher and make education interesting for kids, and every time I do something practical with children it just re-enforces how much the job would suit me.

Im also looking into some different volunteering, which is PAT dogs. We have 5 dogs at home, and I really want to do something practical with my old cavelier (Tommy) who is too decrepid to go for walks or swims like we used to. Plus I want other people to benefit. PAT dogs go round people in need of comaradery (cant spell) or would benefit from interaction with animals such as people with disabilities, people in nursing homes etc and they just stroke them and play with them. Not quite sure how much I can class it as me volunteering because all I do is hold on to one end of the lead. So I go to a talk on that next week to see if any of our pets are suitable, and how much commitment they require because obviously I dont want the people we visit to get attatched to Tommy, and then him stop visiting because Ive gone to Tanzania.

Added to all of this is the continual fundraising! now go £1500, so I'm exactly half way there, but still to collect £700 of that. Now writing to all my companies I have in mind to get some more money, and then once that is sorted I'll hopefully be in the local newspapers Chichester and Bognor Observers, but there is little point going ahead with that until I have sponsorship to advertise...if that makes sense.

sorry Ive written so much about...well....nothing!

em

Posted by Emily ( 12:23 PM )
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