Camp America Application Tips.

I thought it may help people thinking about applying for Camp America next summer to talk about some tips/ideas that I found when applying. 

Click on the image to see the video. I hope you find it useful!

Welcome to Youtube...

I have decided to set up a youtube channel to document my journey - wherever it may take me.

I thought it would be a good way for my family and friends to catch up with what I have been getting up to, give people thinking about doing similar things a chance to see what it is like, but also something for me to look back on when it is all over!

So check out my videos! 

xxx

Camp America. California Here I Come!

On June 4th 2013, I will be getting on a plane to San Francisco. 
After years of telling friends and family that one day I will go travelling, I will finally be leaving the country.

First stop is a summer camp in California! I got the job through the organisation 'Camp America' and I would definitely recommend them, they have been incredibly helpful throughout the whole process. 

So June - August will be spent teaching children arts and crafts and photography, alongside other bits and bobs, in Portola Valley. California is always somewhere I have wanted to go, mainly because of The Hills, (I know, I know!) it looks like such an exciting, interesting and beautiful place, and I can't wait to get there! I'm also pretty excited to be teaching and helping kids to have an awesome summer, not to mention spending time outdoors, instead of in an office!

After camp I am hoping to do a bit of travelling around America. I have 30 days before I have to leave the country! So I'm going to use that time as well as possible, to see as much as possible. Texas, New Orleans, LA, Miami, San Francisco, Las Vegas, are all on my hitlist! 

Then following my 30 day trip around America the plan is to go to Canada and do some snowboarding!

I'll update you as I go along, with all the things that I have to do before leaving the country. There's a lot of things to sort out!

Mid Twenties...

Recently I had my 25th birthday. And I feel pretty old.

If this article by BuzzFeed http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/life-in-your-early-twenties-vs-your-late-twenties is anything to go by, my life is about to get pretty darn boring. However on the plus side, I will care less what other people think and be more confident...

So seeing as I am now officially in my mid twenties (which by the way what does that mean? Does it cover 24,25,26? Or literally just 25?) I have been thinking quite a bit about where my 20 year old self thought I would be and where I actually am.

So when I was 20 I would have been in my first year of University at Falmouth, studying PR. At this point I probably wasn't thinking much about the future, but more interested in deciding whether to go to Club I or Shades (always Club I) and whether I should go to my lecture the next morning. (For those of you reading this who have been to Falmouth, Club I is now apparently the only club, Shades shut down and is now a place called Mama Africas....definitely old)

But if I had, had more deep and meaningful thoughts about where life was taking me, rather than if you can get away with eating 2 day old pizza, I would probably have wanted to achieve the following over the next 5 years:

- Graduate with a decent classification
- Get a job doing something really cool 
- Go travelling
- Do a bungee jump
- Learn how to snowboard 
- Take awesome pictures
- Get uber skinny, healthy and fit
- Learn to surf
- Learn how to play guitar better
- Learn more Spanish
- Find a bloke who is really nice, that I may even possibly want to marry one day.


Now I have achieved some of those. I graduated with a 2.1 and got a job in PR - not bad so far. I took a Spanish course, I bought a DSLR camera and have been 'teaching' myself how to use it, I have been snowboarding twice and have practised guitar, a bit. The rest, are somewhat lacking.

So I thought I would make myself, a kind of, bucket list for the next 5 years, to hopefully inspire me to achieve things that I want to do. So here is my 'thirty before 30' list.


1.   Travel out of the UK
2.   Do a bungee jump
3.   Go snowboarding more than 5 times
4.   Learn to surf
5.   Get fit, slim and healthy
6.   Learn how to play at least three songs on guitar
7.   Make a youtube channel and vlog!
8.   Visit a country that speaks Spanish and speak the language
9.   Watch live music in New Orleans
10. Surf in California
11. Take some awesome pictures
12. Sky dive
13. Take a selfie at Niagra Falls
14. Go on the Harry Potter tour in London
15. See Beyonce live
16. See Rudimental live
17. Meet a Backstreet Boy, Spice Girl, other member of a favourite childhood band.
18. Ride a bike
19. Ride a mechanical bull or a real life horse in Texas
20. Go to Wales and see my nan
21. Discover what my natural hair colour is
22. Have Maple Syrup in Canada
23. Have a Fosters in Australia
24. Visit Tasmania
25. See the Grand Canyon
26. Drink a cocktail on a beach
27. Go to a festival
28. 
29.
30.

I have left the last 3 open to add in, as I can't think of any other good ones and I am sure once I start I will have lots more I will want to add. So here it goes, my 30 things to do before 30.

Wish me luck!