Gap year & Travel News

If your in your last year at school or college this year then your Gap Year is getting nearer and nearer (yayyyyyy)!! And if like me your not one to lay by a pool all day everyday whilst overseas (although a good few days on a palm fringed beach never goes a miss), then id [...]

I personally think its really nice every now and then when someone (or indeed a group of people) says something or more importantly DOES something, which really does help you to believe in the kindness of people again! My auntie Colette, who took part in the sponsored walk with us works at a college in [...]

Hello again lovely readers! So its Friday 14th May Today, so I’m pretty late at putting this blog up for you, however i come bearing BIG NEWS which i have just been dieing to tell you! On Sunday 2nd May we did it! Me, my beautiful mum Maria, Dad Ray, Sister Tara, friend Fran, Auntie [...]

Heloooooo again you beautiful people! Today is Thursday 29th April 2010 and as well as it being my 21st birthday tomorrow (yipiiiiieeeeeee), its also time for our Sponsored walk on Sunday and you guessed it….it’s going to rain, but we shall soldier on! I have been very busy this morning creating a group page on [...]

Sarturday 9th January- What a difference a week makes! I’m sitting in an internet cafe in Puerto la Cruz which is the nearest town to Playa Colorada, where we are staying. I’m not sure where to start, I am having the most incredible time and Venezuela is amazing! The plane journey was fine, veeeeeeeryy long [...]

After spending two days in Arusha again, me, Sabrina and Georgia headed up to Lake Victoria. The bus journey took 12 hours and was uneventful but very tiring. We spent Sunday exploring the town and realising that there wasn’t a huge amount to do so we just spent the majority of our time relaxing! We [...]

I can’t believe it has already been a week since we said bye to everyone at the airport. Our plans since then have changed and we found out once we had gotten to Rukinga Ranch that we would be departing the following day for Kasigau! We are definately in the rainy season now. Even after [...]

Wednesday: Well it’s been Bye Bye Venezuelan beaches and Hola hilltops & coffee haciendas the past two days as we’ve left the comfy confines of Playa Colorada behind for the lush green scenery of Caripe. This is where Leap teams will spend weeks 6,7, and 8 of their volunteer placements and it couldn’t be more [...]

On Monday we continued at Rau Primary School with me and Harry working on the toilet again. Sadly despite hiring a better builder and pulling out al of the stops we didn’t complete the toilet block this week. All of the walls are currently five foot high and it will be completely by the next [...]

It’s week 2 in Tanzania and we have been working at three different orphanages. Firstly between Monday and Wednesday we worked at Camp Joshua, where we built a cow shed. It may sound a strange thing to do at a Tanzanian Orphanage, but it was vital to provide shade for their two cows which give [...]