Main Diary
I met Simon for coffee at the Hive cafe, and I brought my new Samsung S6 tablet with me. He did a great job of setting my tablet up for me and showed me how to make blog entries on it via WordPress, and how to create tags that link to specific things that I … Read more
The blog site looks so good now, I’ve shown the link to everyone at Uni who was willing to see it, and I’m really happy with the way it’s developing. I’ve arranged to meet up with Simon on Monday next week. Hmm, I think I’m getting lessons in blog posting so that I can do … Read more
This morning I uploaded my insurance details to the IVHQ site, such as, whom the policy is held with and the policy number. Another one ticked off the list. I’m just waiting for the criminal record check to come through now. It should only take around two weeks, so I will be able to upload … Read more
I submitted my official holiday request form in to my manager at work, so my time off is now organised. I also had to sort out a criminal record check or DBS, on the government website as that is required for the company that I am going with, (IVHQ) and I’ll need to upload that … Read more
I have to cover an early shift at work, but as I finish at 11 o’clock, I’m going back to Go Outdoors in Preston to exchange some walking trousers … I picked up the wrong size the day before whilst out with my sister and her husband. I don’t mind as I can take my … Read more
It is now mid- January and I have started to look at flights. Now, the last time I flew must have been around fifteen years ago, and I seem to remember the process of booking a flight for a technophobe like me was a relatively painless experience. Hmm, not so now. It was all so … Read more
I went with my sister to ‘Go Outdoors ‘ in Preston. I have never been so excited to get fitted for a rucksack. My sister looked at me like she had never seen me before in her life … She was probably wishing she hadn’t at that point. I ended up with a great 70ltr … Read more
I paid my registration fee and booked my place. I then started doing my research about my trip and in mid November 2021, I enrolled on an online TEFL course. (Teach English as a Foreign Language). This was to gain my licence to teach. I didn’t really need it but I thought it would be … Read more
Thirty years ago, when I was twenty-two years of age, I saw a large, glossy poster advertising for volunteers for an expedition to Peru. The image that fired my imagination was of Machu Picchu, the historic Inca citadel situated on top of a mountain 2,430 meters above sea level, between the Amazonian rainforest and the … Read more
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region … Read more