dont 4get me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey GX ppl,yes GX is finished but dont 4get to write here………………..

GCD

today is the last GCD of GX TEAM _105 ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its about GLOBALISATION,looking forward to it.gooooooooooooood luck to      Tam-Kim.

Clare meets the Cardinal

Today as part of my work with EIFA, i visited the new ‘Punjabn’ De Rasoi’ café in Leith – a social enterprise café run by women from the Sikh Sanjog in Leith.  The visit was particularly special as it was also the day His Emminence Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh and leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland chose to have punjabi food for his lunch.

It was a great morning.  I was particularly in awe of the women’s hard work to get the café open.  It now offers women who have never worked before the opportunity to volunteer in a public café, cooking and socialising with the public.  Also, the café is working to break down barriers and misconceptions that the Sikh community isolates itself from the rest of the Edinburgh community.

The Cardinal was greeted with Indian Masala Tea and something like phori (for those of you down with the Bangla lingo) and then learnt how to make his first chappati!!  Which apparently was better than John Swinney, the Finance Minister’s attempt a few months ago.

It was a really good event and hopefully the Cardinal’s presence will draw some attention to what is an incredible social enterprise venture, encouraging the empowerment of women and of course, feeding the masses with really good haggis pakora!!!

The day was especially memorable for me, as the Cardinal was kind enough to give us a lift back to the office in his car

Over and out xxx

It’s the final countdown…. do do dooo do…

Well, yesterday was a great day for all!  The Diversity Cup was a complete success, with a repeat final of last year but with FFWPU Youth winning instead of the mighty Glasgow Ansar… and that’s where my knowledge of football ends sadly. Although I hear people weren’t happy with the England result or something.  Moulee and I were baking…

Greenworks and LGBT Youth took part in Leith festival, and by the amount of people we saw with henna tattoos and green fingers, they both seemed to go down a treat.

Tonight is our last host home social (before the farewell), and we’re having a pub quiz at the Dockers’ Club on Academy street in Leith starting at 5pm.  Come one come all!  A little birdy told me that there may be rice crispy cakes floating around….

Clarexx

Busy busy busy busy busy busy busy beeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

Well, following our incredibly successful GCD at Greenworks, which involved clearing the yard of a mountain of pallets; sawing, sanding and constructing planters to go on sale at Leith Festival; painting a shed also to be used at Leith Festival; painting the workshop and planting vegetables and plants, we are now planning the next step! (Excuse the long sentence…)

For lots of us, this Saturday is a big one, with Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association’s version of the World Cup, the Diversity Cup on at World of Football in Edinburgh and two charities, LGBT Youth and Greenworks having stands at Leith Festival.  We also have our host home and volunteer placement social on Sunday – a pub quiz which will hopefully bring everyone together for a laugh and to share their experiences of having us around.

The debrief team are running round like headless chickens trying to organise what is proving to be a very busy few days, and everyone else is trying to get things together for our Community Farewell – due to be on the 22nd June so far…. Oh! and, our next CAD is stewarding at the Moonwalk on the weekend of the 18th June.

So basically, if you run into a GX Volunteer anytime soon and they happen to be asleep on a park bench, you’ll know it’s because they’ve simply taken a 5 minute breather from life!

Equally, if you see me asleep on the 37 bus, please wake me up before my stop!

Over and out.

Love Clare

i DO NOT KNOW……

18 days to go. Then…????

I cann’t think about it. In one side the happiness of meeting with family members and other side i will leave some lovely people with whom i passed my best times. I will miss this family……

Days are flying by…….

Mohammad Yasin Rume….

feeling strange :O

GX……………………………………….. 19days left!!!! feeling so strange.Feeling happy that will go home after six months,will meet my family,friends,will go to my uni,can’t wait for that BUT on the other hand feeling sooooooooooooooooooo bad cause i am leaving behind those people with whom i have been staying for last five months. I will definitely miss my counterpart KIRSTY,the most amazing people,i met here,will miss the GCDs,will miss the freedom and lots of things!!!

Global Xchange at the 2010 Young Scot Youth Achievement awards!

Hello hello everyone just wanted to share a link to an article that went up today on the Young Scot Website about me and Moin and our celebrity friends…

Enjoy…its a mega cheesy article…just to feed clare’s obsession bringing you ‘cheese, cake and cheesecake’!!

Click on the link at the right of the page under blogroll to view

Who are we…?

Well, we thought about time we introduced ourselves, seeing as we’re only a month away from finishing the exchange! Better late than never….

So, in no particular order…

Jessica Superstar Wratten (Social Committee)
Age: 23
Likes: Travelling, dancing
Dislikes: Britain’s Got Talent, XFactor, Strictly Something
Favourite Colour: Orange

Priyota Khandaker (GCD Committee)
Age: 23
Likes: Photography
Dislikes: Cooking (although she is very good at it!)
Favourite Colour: Black

Shaiful Al-Mahmud (Media Committee)
Age: 19 (So his passport says…)
Likes: Visiting places
Dislikes: People who don’t love
Favourite colour: Green

Pinky Rany (GCD Committee)
Age: 19
Likes: Making friends and reading
Dislikes: Discrimination of people
Favourite colour: Sky blue

Persia Nargis (CAD Committee)
Age: 21
Likes: Dancing, eating, chocolate and music
Dislikes: Talking
Fave colours: Red, purple, yellow, green!!!

Kim Fuggle (Media Committee)
Age: 19
Likes: Travelling, icecream and live music
Dislikes: Rain and slugs
Favourite colours: Bright and berry colours

Ceridwen Lewis (Social committee)
Age: 20
Likes: Travelling, learning about culture, English and PHOTOGRAPHY!!
Dislikes: Cold, Rain, Daddy Long Legs
Fave colours: Purple and orange

Shahanaj Akter Poly (CAD Committee)
Age: 24
Likes: Travelling, cooking, meeting different people from the community.
Dislikes: Lies, hypocrisy and laziness
Favourite colours: Black and white

Peter Donnelly (CAD Committee)
Age: 23
Likes: Swimming, progression, sky diving, scuba diving
Dislikes: Ignorance, punctures
Favourite colour: Red

Tangina Mehnaz Moulee (GCD Committee)
Age: 23
Likes: Travelling
Loves: Her madness
Dislikes: People who talk behind others’ backs.
Favourite colours: Pink and Black

Sam Grinsted (GCD Committee)
Age: 22
Likes: Travel, bongos, swimming in lakes
Dislikes: Brussel sprouts, accounting, racism
Favourite colours: Blue and Green

Md Moin Uddin Khan (Media Committee)
Age: 22
Likes: Walking, travelling and chatting
Dislikes: Telling lies
Favourite colours: Black and White

Md Yasin Rume (Social Committee)
Age: 20
Likes: Pretty Polish Girls (one in particular), listening to music, poems and reading books
Dislikes: Corruption
Favourite colour: Green

Tamanna Singh Baraik (Social Committee)
Age: 19
Likes: Reading, dance, songs, flowers and natural beauty
Dislikes: Fighting
Favourite colours Cream and chocolate and blue and red and yellow.

Clare Hill (Media Committee)
Age: 22
Likes: Cheese boards, alcohol gel, ethical living
Dislikes: Waste, Dentists, having fewer than 3 boxes of cereal to choose from
Favourite colours: Warm reds and purples

Esme Jefferson (CAD Committee)
Age: 24
Likes: Going to gigs
Dislikes: Coffee
Favourite colour: Green

Kirsty Elizabeth Rogalla (GCD Committee)
Age: 20
Likes: Travelling, volunteering, chocolate
Dislikes: Tonsilitis
Favourite colours: purple and orange

A bit soggy, but ready for the next challenge!

Hello Friends,

Well, we all had a fab time at Knockengorroch festival!  Programme selling, dog catching, night watching, survey taking and ceilidh dancing!  Sadly, one Ceilidh related accident has led to a previously able-bodied Persia being more of a hoppy Persia, but we think she enjoyed it all the same.  One group of GXV’s cooked non-stop for more than 5 hours to create a kichuri feast for festival VIPs, battling with one hob and practically no work space.  Clearly Bangla style picnics in Bangladeshi flood plains were good preparation! (Photos to follow…)

You may already know, but this Saturday is UN World Environment Day, and we’re all hopping (in solidarity with Persia) down to Greenworks to lend a greenhand for our Environment CAD.  The team will be overhauling the young charity’s work yard and helping to build new planters for Leith Festival Gala Day on Saturday 12^th June.  If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend then come join the green festivities at Graham Street. We would love to see you!

Clare xx