Apart from that, it was great to catch up with my niece & nephew, Philippa & Josh, over Easter. They're growing up fast, and both doing well at school. They have lots of outside interests - mainly horses (4 Philippa) and motorbikes (for Josh). Lots of fun!
I had my 1st fundraising event last month, & was pretty happy with how that went. I had lots of help from people who brought along home baking for supper, yum yum. I showed a DVD set in Burkina Faso, that told the story of 1 woman who decided that female circumcision should stop. It was pretty full on, but gave a pretty good insight into the culture and their way of life.
Last week
2 of my nursing friends, Maureen & Suzy, finally got to go to our bach together for a few nights. It took a bit of planning due to our different rosters, but was way worth it! We had lots of fun and did a whole lot of not much. Mainly playing board games, reading, talking, resting, and planning our next trip! It was good R&R and even good weather! Yes, it's true, the coast does get sunshine.... but don't tell anyone cos then everyone will want to go!Apart from that, I've been getting a good amount of work. We even had a couple of people in who had symptoms of the swine flu, plus had recently travelled to Mexico. That made us get our act together with infection control! All good news though, both people turned out to be negative - yay. I've also been plodding away on things for my departure. I have booked my tickets, and leave Chch for France on Aug 27th! Plus I successfully applied for my British passport (dad was born in England), so that makes everything seem a lot closer!! And I've only had 1 headache (that was probably due to biking too far too fast on a hot day & not drinking enough. Lesson learned.) So I'm rapt that the headaches are gone for good!
That's all I have to say about that.
