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Saturday Sep 02, 2006

usual update

wow, its seems I'm a bit behind in my blogs. Recently has been a bit of a whirl-wind. I got my results...which were good enough for birmingham uni. (BBB) after that I went to Momentum, which is a christian camp thing....its part of soul survivor, which is much better known. Got back from that about a week ago, and its been all go, saying goodbye to all my friends off to uni. Oh and plus....completly not volunteer related but I've just been chosen to be a model of sorts for Evans (where I work) so there are now  trips up to london to be done.

Volunteer wise I'm not much futher Im afraid, except worry and upset. My family and friends are all really supportive of my trip to Tanzania, and my ambitions in life, but people are still upset, mainly just two people; my mum and my best mate Hannah. When I traveled to Ghana my mum nearly had a nervous breakdown about me...shes not obsesivly protective, if anything shes the opposite, but her youngest daughter of 17 was in Africa alone with little communication, and she found out on the second day that I wasnt where she thought I was, because I got moved, and I was the first volunteer there. I can completly understand how she felt and I hate putting her through it, but i think she has much more confidence in me this time, and she knows she has to leave me to it now. But she is worried about my health because I came down with salmanela (cant spell) in Ghana, and got really ill. My best friend hannah, well shes a different matter...she wants to work in africa as a nurse once she's qualified and we are so close its impossible to say; we are like sisters and hardly miss a day of seeing each other, ...ok, babbling now! but shes really worried about me leaving, and how she's going to cope.

Looking at it from my way of course I will be completly home-sick...Im a country bumkin homey kind of girl who hates not having her own space and fields around her and I take a long time to make true friends, but I am confident in myself, and in God ( or whatever name different people call him/her/it!) I am expecting a rollercoaster of emotion, but I also think i am better prepared than many because of Ghana.  And surely thats half the point of the experience....volunteering benefits both parties, and my time in Tanzania will hopefully make me more confident and more flexible with things like where I live and being away from the good old south downs!

well I have to go, as work is beconing...and work means money for Tanzania.

Posted by Emily ( 8:14 PM )
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