One week to go!

So it's only one week until we do our marathon walk for Bridge of Hope!

Last night we had our fundraising quiz, which went really well. We had 7 teams, an interesting collection of people who are, I think it's safe to say, never going to be in the same room again: three teams from church, one team from my work, one team of my brothers and a couple from their home group, one team of my mum and dad's neighbours, one team of some people I knew from badminton and their friends!

It's been quite overwhelming the amount of support that I've had. I found fundraising for the Oxfam trailwalker walk quite hard, and made a little over $600 which was the bare minimum. I was expecting people to be less generous this time because most of them wouldn't have heard of Gospel for Asia or Bridge of Hope - and I was fully expecting some people not to support me because it's a Christian orgnaisation. But so far the two of us have raised over $3000 with a pretty even split, which is awesome for the cause (and humbling at the same time)!

Now that the quiz is over, which I was thinking to make the culmination of my fundraising efforts, I can relax a bit - and concentrate on walking a marathon next Saturday!
(Speaking of which, I'm not sure how this is supposed to work, but there is a 'walker tracking' page which will be available on the day, so you can track our progress through each of the pit stops.
http://www.thebridge.net.au/eventw/tb_event.html )

Busy

So I think it's suffice to say I've been busy lately... with my marathon walk for Gospel for Asia coming up in only two-and-a-half weeks, the fundraising is pretty full-on at the moment. I am selling home baking 3 times a week at work, and have raised about $400 so far. On top of that we are organising a quiz night for next Friday, 27 July. And the same day I am giving three lectures as part of an X-ray diffraction workshop at Vic.

Today I am in Melbourne for a proposal advisory committee meeting. It's a flying visit - so not having any luggage apart from my backpack feels a little weird, but it's not the first time I've done it. I stay overnight and then fly back to Wellington tomorrow. And am then helping some people with some small angle X-ray scattering measurements at Vic the following day.

Like I said, I've been busy!

(Oh and if you'd like to sponsor me for my walk, just click here, select my name from the list of walkers, and remember the amount is in AUD!)