First Week

So my first week was stuffed full of wonderful training events, On the Monday we started by shadowing a Low ropes course session, we then proceeded to learn all the different ways to lead a group on the low ropes course. Later that day we went biking in the forest, and a bit on the north shore track. Then at night we hung out with the other staff and played a bit of disc golf.

Tuesday we went on the ropes course some more, we were getting pretty good at it by this point ;) However this time we were focusing on the different ways to lead, such as democratic, charismatic or autocratic. And in the evening we had a warm up archery session, because on Wednesday and Thursday we were visited by Frank, the senior head coach from GNAS(Grand National Archery Society). He started our training, showing us bow and arrow maintenance and correct ways to shoot. We have a GNAS exam on the 9th of September, Prayer for that would be appreciated :). Friday was our day off, I visited home.

Saturday was the Big Celebration, which was full of masses of awesome praise lots of singing, there were around 500-600 people there throughout the day. It was a tremendous day. At the afternoon meetings I was commissioned for my years work with SU.

Tomorrow I am heading up to Altnachrich to begin another stage of our training, and another step in my journey...

See you all soon =]

Callum

Last update before i leave.

Ok training starts tomorrow morning at 10. I have to be at Lendrick muir at half 9 though. Even though it's a very early start i am still very excited!

Money wise I've got £2100 raised, so only £900 to go to meet the minimum requirement! Im soo close i can almost taste it.

Sponsored swim was a success, managed to complete a 1250 metre swim, this was half what i had origionally hoped to swim, but it was enough to completely tire me out.

Until next time my friends =]