Fun Day in Wick brought christmas carols in the square, searches for santa in Weatherspoons, Mrs Claus and her bouncing boobs and an abundance of chirstmas lights and festive cheer. Free chocolates in all the shops, alongside pipe bands and carols blasting through out the Christmas market helped the volunteers quickly get into the chirstmas [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Caithness’
December 1, 2008
Community Farewell
We’ve reached the end of our time in Caithness and amongst tears and memories, in true team 79 style there will always be a celebration. The organising was stressful, but in the end it turned out a success!
The event was held at Thurso Youth Club (where Bridget and Sampa worked a couple of days a [...]
November 27, 2008
Fundraising for Street Children
Fundraising for Street Children
Volunteers from the Global Xchange Programme have arranged a discussion session on the street children issues in Bangladesh in MacKay’s Hotel on the 26th November. Two hour-long program-featured speeches of the guests, presentation on development issues with the special emphasize on street children. All the members of the Rotary Club were present [...]
November 17, 2008
Divali at Keiss School – Broadening Religious Tolerance
A number of Global Xchange Team 79 volunteers (Sonu Rani, Isaba, Bilkis Rumman, Sampa, Tahrima Khan, Anerin, Sylvester Michael Modhu, Muhhammad Umar Khaiyam and I) prepared and presented Diwali – major Hindu festival – to Keiss Primary School children. Diwali or Festival of Light is an important sacred tradition that is joyously celebrated all over the [...]
November 13, 2008
Tree Planting in Thrumster CAD
Caithness is a county of much open space and beautiful rural landscapes. While we’ve all been enjoying the views and local walks, we were yet to truly get our hands dirty in the countryside and Steve…helped us do just that. As a forester for the Forestry Commission in the area, we arranged with him to [...]
November 11, 2008
John O’ Groats Journal IIII – Ormlie
There’s less than 4 weeks to go until the Global Xchange (GX) team leaves Caithness for the second leg of their journey in Chittagong, Bangladesh starting our journey in the capital Dhaka. This past week has allowed us all not only to share our skills, but mainly our culture – especially Cathnesian Scottish Culture. This [...]
October 31, 2008
Halloween
On the 31st of October, in true Scottish style, team 79 held a great Halloween Party. The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows’ Even as it is the eve of “All Hallows’ Day”, a fact our host families took pride in claiming as an old celtic tradition originating from Scotland. It was held in [...]
