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Friday Jul 27, 2007

Old people are cool ...honest !!!

BONJOUR !!

how is everyone today ? its sunny so i am making the most of it - it might not come back until next year !

You see, i told you - you like sun and so do old people just one of the things u have in common. Chocolate and lemonade are also big faviorates. oh and paddling pools - see old people rock. Just because they sit with their feet in the pool on deck chairs and you throw all the water at ur mates doesnt mean u cant hang out. So .... hang with old people.

Okay so dont go visit random people in your street - that could be dangerous - but if you know some old people - mauybe your granny go visit, make them some tea, hang out. You never know they might even give you a mint humbug. I like going to the resiential home (where the old peeps live) and i know lots of the cadets do to. And this is one activity which will definalty carry on throughout the whole summer.

Take care and enjoy the sun ... while it lasts.

Sammy x

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Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

The sun is finally shining !!! :)

Hey everyone - sorry i know its been a long time since my last post i have been mega busy with college, work and sja.

This week saw the end of cadets for this year, and what a fun end it was. Thanks to the much better weather now it was possible to do the BBQ the cadets like so much, this year with the added competition of a team quiz, which was no ordinary quiz. It involved guessing crisp flavours, swaping puzzle peices, and building towers for newspaper. Well done to Slain's team who won - i know the chocolate prize went down well.

But don't be fooled - this does not mean the end of my volunteering for the next six weeks, there is loads and loads and loads of palnning to do ready for next year, planning what to teach never mind how, where and by who. Not forgetting the many duties taking place during the summer and of course county camp, the most looked forward to event of teh year.

Anyway, hope you all have a fun start to the summer
sammy x x

 

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Sunday Jul 15, 2007

Post exam developments

 Hello again everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying the beautiful English weather. I wont have to be worrying about it for too much longer as I am just in the process of packing to jet off to beautiful Dubrovnik for a family holiday.

Quite a bit has happened since I last blogged. I have just started my handover period at the Liverpool Guild Of Students, ready to take over as Vice President Communications at the start of August. I have also spent the last month as a volunteer play worker at the Greenhouse Project in Toxteth.

After returning from my holiday visiting Katy in Spain and having adequately chilled out and relaxed after a mad term I wanted to get back out into the community and make a difference. Also on a purely selfish level it would be fun and get me out of the flat. An opportunity arose for me to volunteer in the Greenhouse Multi-cultural Play and Arts Project in Toxteth.

The Greenhouse Project was a fantastic opportunity to utilise the skills that I had acquired the year before working as a paid Play worker for the Wirral Play Council. Part of the training for the Wirral Play Council was a Level 1 NVQ in play, although the course was a lot of common sense, the course bought it all together and added practical advise, there where some incredibly important sections on Child safety and spotting the signs of abuse, although horrible to sit through the it is important to make sure that we are all clued up and know which procedures to follow. Working at the Greenhouse project was a great experience, luckily for the first week the weather was brilliant so we were able to get out and play football, Frisbee and tick. Playing outside in a safe environment is one of the most rewarding elements of play and the children seemed to love the competition and activity as well.

While at the Greenhouse project I was able to forge new links for the LSCA, as Networking Officer it is part of my responsibility to find and initiate new opportunities for LSCA volunteers. On September the 29^th the LSCA and the Greenhouse Project will be carrying out a day of volunteering. The one off project will look to get Freshers hooked on the spirit of volunteering and greatly regenerate the Greenhouse Project. Over the next month I will look to help facilitate this project, but as I will be working full time at the Guild, the issue is going to be balancing LSCA and the Guild. I would love to carry on volunteering as much as I have this year, however this isn't going to be feasible, so I have to be realistic as to what I can achieve.

It's bye for now and will write more soon.

Tom x

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