Speechless

Yes, I know, not a term used in relation to me that often. According to my friends that is.

Anyhoo, the day starts like most do...bleary eyed, drinking my coffee and checking my emails, the news and all that.

Come on brain, wakey, wakey, stuff to do today... MOT for the car ... do Uni' work... deliver a donation request letter about my elective...ok more coffee.

Ping goes an email on my phone ... 💥I then almost choked on my coffee when I see an email from Joe Jamieson, Marketing Manager at Work the World. Could he speak to me about doing a bit for the Work the World blog about my experiences as a mental health nurse (student) while in Dar es Salaam?

Silence falls in our house and I look at Marc 👀. 

I am speechless.

He looks at me, waiting for the next word to spill forth. 

"Well???"

"I have been asked to do a blog bit for Work the World...Me!?...little ol' me...bloomin' 'eck".

He is extremely excited by this and starts smiling from ear to ear. And me? well, I collect my shell shocked thoughts, muttering "he called me "a switched-on individual". 

He's a clever fella this Joe, I thought 😊 Although I must add that I won't post all my thoughts that were going round my head at that time 😉 cannot guarantee they'll be read post watershed, if you know what I mean? 

I mean, really? wow! EDP yesterday, Work the World today. Goodness knows who will message me tomorrow. 

However, if it happens to be HRH from the big house in London, I may have to decline interview straightaway, as I have lots of Uni' work to do 📖📕📖📘📖📗. Sorry your Majesty must dash 💨.

OK, so I spoke to Joe this afternoon to see what I need to do. It all sounded quite straight forward and so I agreed.

I'm getting used to this life in the spotlight 😎 Any more and I will have to be sneaked in through the back door at Heathrow Airport when I leave the UK!

Yeah, yeah, ok, ok ... a girl can dream right? 😄😃

Another nice thing happened today too. I received a parcel from some dear friends, off my wish list. I opened the parcel to see 2 Rough Guide books on Swahili phrases and Tanzania. It was such a surprise to receive them. I am feeling so excited and so very lucky right now. I cannot explain it.

Speechless. 

Oh...did it happen again? 😁

Anyways, onward and upwards eh? This degree won't learn itself.

Just thought I would let you all know about this bit of news from today. 

Chat again soon, nice to catch up with you 😎

TTFN

Karen 

Well I'll be...!

So, there I am , sitting reading and drinking coffee (no surprise there), when I get a call.

"Hello" 

"Ah hello I am  Nick Carding, Health reporter, from the EDP to talk to you about your elective, in August was it?"

"err yes...ok...right..." me gobsmacked at this point (come on brain - work!!).

So he proceeds to ask why I wish to go to Tanzania to which I reply why not?? fair answer I thought 😊 

Then I am thinking what do I say next. DO I put humour in there, do I be sensible, Mustn't forget I am doing a professional degree, must be a responsible adult. So, I calmly continue to speak to the chap from the EDP, with my best phone voice on (like we all do) and justify what I want to get out of going to Africa. 

SO then I go off to my various meetings and the such, and finish my day. 

I am sitting on the bus blissfully unaware that someone at Archant is squirrelling away at a story about me!! Blimey!! Since when did I become a news article? pfft yeah as if.

fame & fortune beckons 😍

Anyhow I get in and discuss how my day went and all that. I say about the call from the EDP and we check online. Lo and bloomin' behold, there I am, in glorious technicolor, on my TV screen, large as bloomin' life!! 

Well I'll be...I'm in the ruddy newspaper! Me!?! 

If you want to have a read.....here it is...well click here

SO today has been a funny day for getting things done for the elective and of course my Uni' work and I guess now I will be fighting off the Paparazzi from the front  door. Watch this space. Any autographs will be a pound donation to the elective fund 😎 haha, only kidding 😄

Today the EDP...tomorrow who knows? 

Laters taters

Karen

London

Had to go to London with Marc yesterday for a meeting, so much for a lie in!

After the meeting we had a lovely wander around London.

Little walk from Holborn to Covent Garden and heard an amazing quartet of buskers (3 violinists and a cellist), stopped for a spot of lunch in Leicester Square, did the obligatory people watching lol, and then Marc took me to a new store that had opened.

He knows I like Lego so I really was like a big kid in a toy shop 😊 Great fun in there.

Who remembers the old 279?

Hadn't been around China Town for years and years so thought what the heck...headed back to Covent Garden and in to the Transport for London Museum for a few hours before heading back to Norwich.

Tired and sore feet but a lovely day, just have to grab some sleep before the joys of Uni tomorrow

Seeya
Karen

Jambo folks :-)

Just a quick post to say I intend to update this blog once a week, or maybe more times if lots of stuff happens.

Whilst uni is proving busy there is still much excitement going on with getting this elective to Tanzania sorted.

The website is now up and running www.myelective.ollosson.co.uk, which was great to see go live :-)

The PayPal donation link was set up and the GoFundMe page is up and running....hint hint :-)

It was totally brilliant go get my first donations through both of those methods, I really can't thank people enough for the help they have given and I am truly humbled by it.

Well have to go as my eyes are failing and I have to go to London with Marc soon.

Thanks everyone

seeya soon

Karen