Helen's blog

July 2009

Chile has finally arrived, as I am writing this I am sitting in a Youth Hostel in London with Team Chile as we are departing this evening. We met up yesterday to check all our resources and repacked our bags, it was extremely hot in our room but I suppose we can't complain as it's going to be cold in Chile. The beds were also extremely squeaky so all in all not the best nights sleep but we've got a 17 hour plane journey to look forward to.

I've been to see We Will Rock You which is an amazing show and would definitely recommend it to anyone, it certainly got everyone singing and clapping anyway. A trip to the Last Night of the Wilton Proms was also in order, it was an open air concert given by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra playing a great selection of classical music. It was amazing to see 2000 people sitting in the open complete with tables, tablecloths and candelabras, luckily it didn't rain and there was a spectacular firework display at the end.

We took 37 Brownies and Rainbows on their summer outing to the Rare Breeds farm and they all had great fun racing pigs, feeding goats and climbing through the mystical marsh and topping it off with an ice cream. Thoroughly tiring but vey enjoyable.

This last month has been really hectic with putting together final session plans for Chile, looking at my Queen's Guide Award and Leadership Qualification and also working full time. If there has one thing that I have learned in my gap year it's that I never want to work in an office again! I have immense respect for all those leaders who work full time and manage to do all the Guiding activities on top. Our Division said goodbye to two leaders who have been adult leaders for 20 and 30 years. What an impressive amount of time and judging by there photos some very exciting times too.

So I am about to set of for Chile and my next blog will be full of my adventures.