If you are wondering what I am on about when I'm saying countdowns and records, I have just about reached 300 volunteering hours (a new record for myself) and I am counting down to several significant and exciting events over the next week, mainly to do with my volunteering. On the other hand, it looks like it could be a busy week anyway.
It is now roughly 2 days until the Vibe Awards, where I will see my girlfriend and volunteer collect her award, as well as some very deserving other candidates and local organisations. I may not be nominated myself but to be honest, I'm so proud of Faye that I don't particularly mind. Plus, I do it for the fun and to keep myself occupied. It also looks great as experience on my CV, award or not. It should be a good event and as a young journalist, despite being there to support my volunteer and girlfriend, I would have liked to report on such a great event, however, I wouldn't know where to publish it. I will be sure to publish a post awards ceremony blog though.
I am also looking forward to the final Team V Residential in Loughborough, next Saturday. It is not only the last time, apart from Graduation, that I'll get to see everyone but given the length of the last campaign, it will be interesting to find out the issue that we will be campaigning on. I'm also looking forward to exploring further opportunities that I could do once the programme is finished. Although I will provisionally be doing a Level 3 course next year, I would like to see what I can carry on doing to keep something going. It seems a shame to just leave what has been such a great experience. Fair enough, there have been stressful moments, however, I have learnt from them and that's what's important.
Aside from the events that I am looking forward to being at, although it's not volunteering, I'm looking forward to being up to date with work and hopefully doing really well in the exam that I sat last week. I should find out on Tuesday. As much as looking forward to work sounds weird, I like working towards something and seeing the end product. Plus, it means I can concentrate on the next bit of work. It's the BIG one.
It is now roughly 2 days until the Vibe Awards, where I will see my girlfriend and volunteer collect her award, as well as some very deserving other candidates and local organisations. I may not be nominated myself but to be honest, I'm so proud of Faye that I don't particularly mind. Plus, I do it for the fun and to keep myself occupied. It also looks great as experience on my CV, award or not. It should be a good event and as a young journalist, despite being there to support my volunteer and girlfriend, I would have liked to report on such a great event, however, I wouldn't know where to publish it. I will be sure to publish a post awards ceremony blog though.
I am also looking forward to the final Team V Residential in Loughborough, next Saturday. It is not only the last time, apart from Graduation, that I'll get to see everyone but given the length of the last campaign, it will be interesting to find out the issue that we will be campaigning on. I'm also looking forward to exploring further opportunities that I could do once the programme is finished. Although I will provisionally be doing a Level 3 course next year, I would like to see what I can carry on doing to keep something going. It seems a shame to just leave what has been such a great experience. Fair enough, there have been stressful moments, however, I have learnt from them and that's what's important.
Aside from the events that I am looking forward to being at, although it's not volunteering, I'm looking forward to being up to date with work and hopefully doing really well in the exam that I sat last week. I should find out on Tuesday. As much as looking forward to work sounds weird, I like working towards something and seeing the end product. Plus, it means I can concentrate on the next bit of work. It's the BIG one.
The other day, without much to do and wondering what to do for the final few hours of my voluntary challenge, although it may now be almost a year old, I watched the speech at vInspired Live by Terry Ryall, the CEO. I may have seen it many a time now, however, it's still as vInspiring as it was when I first saw it. In fact, at the first Team V residential, we had the privilege of meeting Terry and she is as nice as she seems on the video.
To be honest, without vInspired, I doubt that I would be sitting here with 300 hours of volunteering under my belt. This is an amazing achievement for me and I would like to Thank vInspired for giving me that opportunity to not only get recognition for my volunteering but also keeping encouraging me on the days when I didn't really feel like doing voluntary work. Okay, I may not have reached my target in getting to 300 hours by the end of February 2014, however, it didn't take me too long to reach it.
Hence, from Monday 10th March, I will be raising money for vInspired by running, cycling and walking 300 miles in 150 days. This, in reality, is only two miles a day but it's still a challenge in a way. If you would like to sponsor me (please do), please visit my sponsor page here. I will put the page to track my progress up soon but I need the sponsors as well. My target is £300. I want to give something back to a charity that has given me so many great opportunities.
Overall, it should be good but busy next week, however, as I always say, it's better being busy than bored. I needed to get to 300 hours and this should cover my last hour of the challenge. I did it (9 days late but oh well). That's why they call it a challenge. Once revealed, I will also be doing a post on the third and final Team V campaign so keep a look out for that next Sunday. As always, everyone is wanting it to be a certain subject but the likelihood is that it won't be any of those. It's always a good challenge though. If it wasn't, we wouldn't learn anything, would we? What would be the point?
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