When I was eight I moved to Nepal in January 2002. I have since been to Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Laos, Greece, Slovenia, Russia, Cyprus, France, Scotland, Morocco and Switzerland. I have driven through many more countries while travelling in Europe.

I love to travel and writing diaries about my travel experiences to inspire people to go travelling themselves. Travelling is such a worthwhile adventure and I would definitely say travel broadens the mind!

I will be blogging about a few of my experiences whilst abroad as I have recently found some old diaries. These are very old and were written from 2004 onwards (I was 11!) therefore the language is very mature.. not! But I hope you will enjoy them and find them humourous (as I have!)

In January 2012 I will be jetting off to the exotic islands of Fiji in the South Pacific, to volunteer as a teacher for three months. I am extremely excited but also quite anxious to be flying on my own but I can't wait! I shall be using this blog to write about my journey and all my adventures when I get there. Through writing about my experiences, I hope to inspire others, especially teenagers to get out there, explore and discover. There's life outside the UK and Europe!
See my blog archives to read more :)




Just a note to say that annoyingly with Blogger you have to begin from the bottom and read up!

I haven't worked out how to change this yet so that the oldest posts are at the top and readers would read in order to read the most recent post at the bottom.

So you don't get confused please visit the blog archive which begins at 2011 and goes down to 2013 so that you can read my blog in order.

Hope this makes sense, thanks :)

Sunday, 29 April 2012

Day Two ~ Sunday 15th January

Bula! ~ Hello!

Planned the holiday school today and decided to take face paint, coloured card, tissue paper and glitter. Couldn't sleep at all for the first night, due to the huge amount of mosquitoes and the heat, although my bed is next to the window. My mosquito net is far too small so I got slightly eaten alive. The dorms are very basic. I share with ten other volunteers with two shared showers and toilets. Luckily, we have one solar light but sometimes it doesn't work and the water can be off for a day. Later in the evening, the generator broke and there was no water for showers or washing. The other dorm found a Huntsman spider, the size of a dinner plate ~ thank god it wasn't in ours! Had curry and rice for dinner, yum! The base is in an amazing location by the sea, it has a well and a shared kitchen. We have cooking teams and shared chores ~ mine is compost and recycling! There's two dogs on base, Matty and Junior and they belong to the three in-house families. There are so many adorable kids running round, impossible to remember names!

Matty?

The kids having fun in the tree

Angela and Matty
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Day One ~ Saturday 14th January

Had to catch up with these blog posts as unfortunately I didn't get the chance to write out there and then came back early cos I got ill :(

The Journey Begins!

Got up really early (6am!) to catch the boat over to our Yasawas base. Met other GVI volunteers at breakfast but also shared a dorm with a few girl volunteers. Haven't met anyone yet who is doing the childcare project for 3 months (like me!) Met a lovely Australian girl called Emily but she's only doing Childcare for 2 weeks ~ she lives so close! Shared a dorm at Aquarius with Sanna from Melbourne, doing the Expedition project, Kristina from the Gold Coast, doing the Marine project and Lydia from Switzerland, also Marine. Everyone's really friendly but people will come and go so will be a big mix. :) The boat journey takes four and a half hours to the base and we spent the time on the deck, island watching. There is no internet on the islands so took the opportunity to email before leaving (there was as I found out later but minimal access). Also bought a Fijian sim card for cheap texts and calls but may not be much phone signal! Nadi town, on the mainland, reminds me of India, loads of little shops and markets selling everything under the sun. We got into town on a rickety old bus with a bicycle bell attached to string which had to be pulled if you wanted to get off! Everything was ridiculously cheap, apart from sarongs ~ strange as everyone wears them. Resorts are expensive too, especially as its tourist season. The islands should be much cheaper. There are many places I would love to go to at the weekends that we have free but it takes so long to get anywhere by boat. It takes 18 hours to get to Taveuni, one of the best islands for exploring and hiking.

Ready for an adventure!
The beautiful islands ~ from the deck of the Yasawa Flyer
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