Tuesday 26 June 2012

Thankyou all!!

Thankyou to everyone who has donated money to VSO,  I have reached my £1500 goal !!!! WOOOP!    This money goes to VSO to help them continue to send people like me overseas to help in developing countries.   I thought it would be difficult to raise such a large amount, but thanks to the generosity of friends and family (and selling most of my worldly goods at carboot sales) it was actually quite easy!!!!
Just because I've reached the £1500 mark, does not mean I have to stop there!   You can still donate to VSO through my just giving site:  http://www.justgiving.com/jamesdaviesVSO and this will help VSO even more!!
Also, check out the VSO website for more information on their work.  http://www.vso.org.uk/

Many Many thanks to you all :)


Not long to go now..............

Tuesday 12 June 2012

3 weeks.......

3 weeks to go!

The lovely helpful people at Anachem UK LTD (www.anachem.co.uk)  have very kindly donated some Pipettes for me to take with me.  These will be very useful for my work and will replace the ageing pipettes that are currently in use at the hospital.
I've also been requested by the hospital to take a spectrophotometer with me- not sure I can fit that in my suitcase though!

I'm still trying to sell my car! (PLEASE somebody buy it!)
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201223474909916/sort/default/usedcars/model/mondeo/make/ford/radius/1/postcode/bh124be/page/1/quicksearch/true?logcode=p

My Swahili is coming along (albeit very slowly).. but I still don't know much about football.  I did sit through the Ireland-Croatia match the other day... but I completely missed the England match last night (in fact I didn't even know it was on!!)... so still a long way to go before I can have a conversation about Football in Swahili. !

My flight details should be through soon, and then I can start packing/panicking.