Today, our last full day in school before departure, has been full of the media. We began bright & early with Radio Cumbria journalist Will Tillotson who interviewed us for the breakfast programme and confessed before we began that he had connections with another team: Bristol Grammar School, who are the England winners of the Kids' Lit Quiz and whom we beat by the narrowest of margins in November (half a point, to be exact - can't get much narrower than that!). He attended the Junior School of Bristol Grammar many moons ago so was interested to hear that we would be meeting up with them on the other side of the world very soon.
I'm hoping to include here an audio file of the interview but for the next 7 days you can listen at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001hjzn
Click on Ian Timms' show for 13/7/11 to listen; it starts just before 2hrs 10mins.
After this I had an email from someone wanting information for the BBC Cumbria website and then a request for an article, with a photo which hasn't been used in any other publication, from our local magazine/newsletter/information publication, The Cockermouth Post. They had a quarter page free and could I fill it? Could I! I had to cut an existing article almost in half to give them the required number of words and, if you've read this far on the blog, you'll know I don't 'do' concise writing. I feel as if I've turned into a journalist myself as I've spent a lot of time writing articles for various audiences, including this blog.
Anyway, it got written and sent with a new photo, then I did lots of last minute things such as checking passport numbers, emergency contact details for everyone, picking up tickets and money, ensuring as far as possible that things are going to run smoothly up to the end of term, making sure I'd anticipated things for September and lots of other odd jobs which easily took up the rest of the day.
Many of people in school asked when we're off - I think they can't wait to get rid of us! But we were wished good luck by everyone and several people offered to carry our luggage if they could come too...
At last I'm off to complete my packing. Or maybe I should say, to start my packing. Hope I don't forget anything and I really hope that everyone turns up at Penrith Station tomorrow at the right time.
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