Stage One Fundraising, donations and preparing to go

Well, term has ended and the real work can now start.
The landy is having it's steering box replaced as I write to make it easier to drive and I'm busy writing my year 11 reports to leave behind for the new term!
Christmas with the family is fast approaching but tomorrow I must take the team's passports to Hillingdon to the Ghana Embassy to get visas sorted.
I alternate between excitement and pure fear of the unknown. I am so touched by the words of encouragement from my colleagues and the students from school. Thanks to them I have a house full of blankets children's bikes, toys and books, old spectacles, pens, pencils and a range of other useful equipment. The mufti day and collection from the christmas concert alongside generous individual donations mean that the Weydon logo will shine on the side of the landrover with pride! I hope that the links that we will make en route and in Ghana will get our international link well and truely launched.
Miss Frost and I were enthused and excited by a meeting this last week with a representative of the Sabretrust charity to whom the landrover is headed. I will be off to visit a community in the north of the Elmina district in Ghana called Dwabor, where we hope to start our long term project linking to an existing junior high school, for students up to the age of 15.
I will keep you posted!
First I have to pack the landy and make the 4500 mile journey...