Days 4, 5 and 6

My diary for this year now filled with dates after a meeting with Sam and Sarah

Mary and SB in the car on the way 

back from lunch

This is how many seats we'll need to fit the whole team

down for dinner each evening (19)

Project 365 days 1-3

I'm hoping this year to start (and complete) what is know as a 365 project. This, for those of you who have not heard of this, is when you take a picture each day for a year and upload it either to a blog or a social networking site with a sentence explaining the context of the picture, people do this for many reasons but the main ones are to either improve photography skills or to keep memories of a particular year. I'm trying to do this for both these reasons but especially to try to capture as many moments from my intern year with SUMT as possible. I will also be printing all my pictures and making them into a book to keep it forever.

So here are the first few days...

Day one - Full car boot at Liverpool docks waiting to get on the ferry

Day 2 - newly organised room with things on the walls, feel at home now.

Day 3 - steam train pulling into PSM after a walk to Port Erin with Mary

Hopefully I will be able to keep this up (though probably wont upload each day like you're meant to) and you will all be able to get a better insight into my life on IOM.

The best of both worlds

The last few days have been ones of extremes. After being busy for the first couple of weeks of my holiday I spent the start of this week doing very little and sleeping alot, trying to convince my body that it wanted to go back to work in about 10 days time. The yesterday I went into central London to Oxford Street to go shopping. It was great to make the most of the shops which are both bigger and more varied than those on the island, making buying jeans that fit my 5"2' frame much easier. I also managed to buy a pair of boots that fit me to the extent that I could even fit a pair of jeans inside of them. This is the end of about four years of searching for boots that fit my feet (size 4 1/2) yet also fit around my legs (combination of genetics and dancing).

I then spent today walking the dogs in the forest, baking, sewing and blogging. I love the fact that here I am near enough to London to enjoy the culture and benefits of a big city, yet far enough away that when the riots happened we were out of harms way (only just one night, but still), to be in the country side, able to buy bread from the bakers each day and meat from the butchers when we need it. It really is the best of both worlds.

Goodbye day

At the end of our Volunteer year we had a good bye day and evening when we just spent time together reminiscing about everything that had happened during the year. During the evening different members of the team sang songs, did dramas and shared stories. I made a video of photographs from during the year and so thought I would share it here also.