Road to Guatemala
So a couple of months ago, I wrote an essay for an opportunity to build a school in Guatemala. Only seven people from my organisation of 500+ would be chosen. I was number eight. The runner up. If someone dropped out of the mission trip, then I would be the next in line. Yep – you […]
Old Friend – New Adventure
You know when you meet someone and you instantly know that you are going to be friends? This is not a story of this type of scenario. Instead, this is a coworker, turned peer, turned friend over the course of seven years. Two very similar people with the same work ethic bonded over late night […]
Bute Park – Fall 2019
A year ago, we visited Bute Park for the first time. It was fall — the leaves were changing and falling. My exact words a year ago still resonate today “Eight miles of hiking today. Eight miles through a fairy tale. The colours of the trees – the peacefulness of the surroundings – the picturesque […]
Comfort Food
Every time I have a visitor from the US, I’m asked the same questions…. What can we bring you from home? What food do you need? Now I have a pretty standard list of food items that we are always wanting: Ranch dressing Taco Sauce Jerky Mac and Cheese (velveeta or kraft… we don’t discriminate!) […]
Old Life – Reminiscing
Before I made the decision to move companies, I worked for my prior organisation for over six years. I ultimately grew up there professionally — I had graduated university with no semblence of an idea of what I wanted to be when I grew up, and Kevin and I made a deal that whoever found […]
Why yes – I will take Taco Bell!
Sooo…. my office in Southern England has a Taco Bell near. My very lovely husband agreed to drive there, because we were visiting and his very needy wife needed Taco Bell. Worth every wrong turn, bus lane (yes… we drove down a bus lane illegally… on accident!), parking fee. All to taste the sweet, sweet […]
Day 3: Last Day with the Patel’s
We had a nice slow morning to recover from yesterday… We all leave Paris today, so we all had to pack up 🙁 Today was reserved for a bit of shopping though. We walked along the famous Champs Elyees Avenue with all the big names (Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Door, etc). Just a bit of window […]
Day 1: We made it to Paris!
10:20am flight from Cardiff to Paris12:40pm arrival to Paris Stuck on the tarmac cause our bus broke down and then a 90 minutes trek to the hotel. But that doesn’t negate the fact that we are meeting friends in Paris and to our delight, Hima meets us at our hotel with a bunch of American […]
The Untruths of Recycling
One week ago, I would have purchased plastic champagne flutes for our office celebration next week. I would have placed them in a recycle bin and would have felt like I did the right thing. I used plastic, but I recycled it. Alas, six days ago, we absentmindedly started a BBC documentary (War on Plastic […]