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Wednesday Jul 05, 2006

Off to Nepal

I'd like to continue by writing about some of my recent experiences which have shaped where I am today.

I had the good fortune to bump in to an amazing young gentleman called Dominic Stevenson around two months ago who has been setting up a charity and who has played a big influence on where I am today. The charity is called 6S and is going to be set up to send students and people who cannot afford to travel around the world to volunteer, I ended up a very happy fundraiser for a brilliant project. Through Dominic I have met some incredible and compassionate individuals who I am delighted to be working with in Nepal (big hugs and kisses to you all!!!), where I was informed I am to be going a week ago having drunk a bottle of wine and eaten my way through a few badly cooked veggie burgers. Something like that is like a punch in the gut, not so much in a negative way but a big shock. Instead of stepping out of your comfort zone you are jumping on top of your comfort zone head first with eight skin heads, kicking the living daylights out of it, dowsing it with petrol, setting it alight and then spit roasting a boar over it. Frightening yes, but wow... Nepal! I cannot wait!!!  

I've never travelled, it was something I always put off doing because of silly little fears which are irrelevent to this piece, but which kept my feet firmly in the United Kingdom, not to mention money issues. Still, I couldn't ask for more brilliant people to be travelling with and I am looking forward to the culture shock, mosquito nets and markets with dyes so pure in colour they could have been plucked straight from a rainbow.   I hope that this introduction gives you all some idea about who I am and what I do. I best appologise in advance for any bad spelling, typo's or inconsistancies in my writing, I am slightly dyspraxic... But working on it! Hope you enjoy what you read.  

Love Selina xx

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