Gap Year Experiences

Johnnys b-day and a heart shaped forest

Wednesday 28 November 2007

Today is Johnnys birthday, so for all of you who speak to him today, wish him a great one. At the moment he is travelling the length of the UK visiting unis and letting everyone know about our one month trips in July next year. He was in Edinburgh last night and and from what I've heard a pretty good time was had by everyone who popped in at Brass monkeys to say hi.
If you're keen to have a few drinks and chat to us about our uni trips check out the facebook group for Pepper Adventure-Travel to see when we're gonna be in your area.

Back in SA we've had some horrific weather over the last 2 weeks but it looks like it might be clearing up with today being an absolute stunner. Bright sunshine, no wind..a perfect beach day and thats where I'm heading the minute I get through this post!


I stumbled across an interesting project on facebook the other day and I really liked it, so I thought I would share it with you: Its called tree nation. Their goal is to plant 8 million trees in the Niger desert in the shape of a heart. Apparently this heart-shaped indigenous forest will be big enough to be seen from space! Now, you often hear of publicity stunts and a large number of facebook groups are complete bull but this one got my interest cos it seems like a bunch of people that are genuinely trying to make a bit of a difference. They have planted over 5000 trees already and their goal is not only to make a statement about how our earth is slowly going down the toilet but at the same time to help out some of the local people in Niger. It sounds like a really awesome thing to be doing so anyone whos interested, join up with them on facebook on:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6626647710
or check out their website at:
www.tree-nation.com

Thats me done and off to the beach!
Vince