Emily's Blog

Hello guys! I was tagged to do the 'Very Inspiring blogger award' by Briony - thank you!

Rules

• Link the person who nominated you in your post
• List the rules and display the award
• Share 7 facts about yourself
• Nominate 15 other blogs and link them in your post
• Let them know you have nominated them

Facts about myself

1.  I have dyed my hair dark red (around 3 times), dark purple, light brown and black - recently. However, I really want to dye it blonde and then pastel pink like next year or something
2. The tattoos I want, (well am thinking about getting in the future) are: a heart on my left index finger, an arrow (I'm not entirely sure where yet), and 'care less' in Chinese on my back or right inner or side of my arm (in quite small letters)
3. I really need a job! I have been shortlisted for one and I'm praying I'll get it! *fingers crossed*
4. I'm going to Malaysia Borneo for 4 weeks in 2015 (I made a blog post about it, if you haven't read it, you could go check it out if you wanted: World Challenge - Malaysia and Borneo)
5. I am getting contact lenses soon and I'm very excited as I don't like wearing my glasses, even though they look alright ha ha!
6. I am probably going to go on a Gap Year in 2015/2016 and I hope to travel to a few places with friends and do some voluntary work to do with whatever I have decided to study at Uni
7.  I hope to go to University and study either English Language with Media or Psychology

I am going to nominate 5 people as I honestly can't be bothered to tag 15 people! So anyone else who wishes to do it, obviously feel free too and send me the link in the comments of this post, as I'd love to give it a read!

Rosa Jane

Meredith Solimine

Zsuzsanna Wrywood

Olivia Mitchell

Eleanor

Thank you for reading :)

Love, Emily x 

Hello everyone! Today I'm going to be talking about a life changing trip I will be going on in just over a year.
We had an assembly quite a few months ago about this thing called 'World Challenge'. People who work for the business came in and talked to us about it, and as it sounded quite interesting and fun I grabbed a leaflet at the end of the assembly. I then later made the decision that I would defiantly go, even though none of my friends from my school were going... I decided to be brave ha ha! Turns out I did know someone going, and now I have met other people who seem nice too. So that's good!

What exactly is 'World Challenge'?

World Challenge is an organisation that has been running for over 25 years. They offer life changing and amazing trips for schools, which will help you gain many useful and valuable life skills. Also teenagers will gain greater knowledge on different cultures.

On the trip, which is for 1 month, we will be doing various things such as helping out in a town and in a school (I think) and we will help redecorate and teach the children some basic English or do a little music lesson! We will also be climbing a very tall mountain, which will take us 2 days. We will be doing a PADI diving course and turtle conservation - which I think will be SO cute. We get a few days of relaxation time in between most activities as well, so we can go sightseeing, shopping and go to the beaches - which look am a zing. We will be sleeping in tents, hostels and on hammocks in the rainforest, which will be quite scary but fun!
Although there are teachers and leaders coming on the trip, they're leaving everything down to us once we get there, so we'll be organising everything and buying the food we need etc.



At the end of the trip I think everyone will be so much more independent, have more social skills and would have learnt tonnes of other great skills. I think it will be a very challenging, but amazing and rewarding experience!