Showing posts with label YACS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YACS. Show all posts

04 June 2009

March 2009

March was a slightly quieter but just as busy month as the rest of the year. After returning from Victoria on my second deployment it was straight back into UNI for me and it certainly was busy :).


First weekend in March saw me off to Sydney for NSW YACS (Youth Advisory Council for Scouting) where I was one of the Facilitators. It was a great weekend we tried a new way of presenting our discussions to the CCC (Chief Commissioners Council) so instead of presenting a PowerPoint Presenation like we normally do we had videos of our discussion outcomes. This had its pro's and con's. Overall it was a great weekend with a great group of friends and I hope to be able to go again in November.



The next friday (13th) a few weeks organising came to a conclusion with Worlds Greatest Shave. I shaved my head down to a number 1 along with 5 other members of my Bridage. All up we raised just under $3000 for the Leukaemia Foundation. It was a great night and in a year or two I hope to do it again and raise twice as much.

During the week I recieved the unfortunate news that my Grandfather on my fathers side had passed away on Tuesday 17th. This news came to me the same day as Mum's birthday Wednesday 18th, He was burried on Friday 20th RIP Poppy Elliott.

This was a week of extreme highs and lows.

The following weekend (20th-22nd) I was off to NOC (National Operations Committee Meeting) in Tasmania. It was a good trip with many great outcomes for NYC. Dinner saturday night was at the Drunken Admiral and it was a great feed. Also got to see the anti whaling ship the Sea Shepard yes you are correct it is named after Steve Irwin. After 3 flights and lots of waiting in airports I was back at home working on uni assessments.

The last weekend in March was a interesting weekend spent babysitting a friends kid, it was a great weekend.