I don’t want to just go on holiday to sleep all day and get pissed at night so I’ve been looking into how I can complete this task and experience cultures, learn new stuff and even help other people.
Check this site out its great http://www.realgap.co.uk
They do fab holidays from 1 week to 2 years!!
Going to see the Kaiser Chiefs in August and The View are playing too so this goal will be completed next month.
I am so nervous its just like starting a new job :(
I’ll be fine when I get in the swing of things I know but hate this feeling!!
I’ll update tomorrow x
I’m so weird still not wanting a ciggie but mate was at the house last night and she smokes as well as my 2 flatmates and I actually love the smell of the ciggies.
To cheer at least one person a day whos in the same boat as me if I succeed I will mark this as done in 2 weeks.
But I’ll continue to cheer people everyday. As I think it gives you a real boost.
I’m 10 days and counting so far x
Breakfast
Rice Crispies and skimmed milk 3 points
Melon 2.5 points
Grapes 0.5 points
Lunch
Southern Fried Chicken Wrap 8 points
Melon 2.5 points
Strawberries 0.5 points
Grapes 0.5 points
Snack
Snack-a-Jacks 2 points
Dinner
Spicy Bean Burger 2 points
Veg 0 points
Chips ?
Total Points 21.5 + chips
PS Got wrap as forgot lunch have to decide on something lower in points for emergencies as only have 24 points a day.
Not been logged on in ages so have been on today and find that this really helps I am racing people to get into the 14’s and have joined the summer challenge. Bit of healthy competition
I also bought the mag so will read that to get inspiration.
Wish me luck.
I know they have recycling facility in our building my mission is to find it and see what I can recycle.
Well at work I have started sending stamps to the RNIB, as they recycle them and make money off it for their charity.
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_frstamps.hcsp
Phoned landlord to report that I’d broke it so he’s going to phone a company he has registered it with to get it fixed fingers crossed it will be soon x
Me and my sis went halfers on a Kaiser Chiefs ticket. There’s alot of us going to see them in August and she said she’d quite like to go!!!
And a few of us are going out for lunch on Sat so we’ll pay for hers too.
Need to get form from the post office to change my details. Could collect when out for walk this afternoon.
Was really bad this weekend so clean slate as of today have my water bottle full and fruit by my side I refuse to go to the shop at lunch I will just buy crap.
So going to start heading out for a walk again at lunch to keep me busy and get some exercise.
Going to get up early tomorrow and do 15 mins on my trampette and get off the bus earlier on the way to work which is another 15 mins to walk to work.
I WILL SUCCEED!!!
PS Any helpful hints would be much appreciated x
without a ciggie and still going strong heading out for a friends birthday which means a boozy night hopefully I stay off them as most of my mates smoke!! MUST STAY AWAY!!!
I have great faith that I won’t have any :)
1. Population
The British founded the first settlement and named it Sydney in 1788. Many of the first settlers were convicts. Free settlers arrived in increasing numbers, particularly after the discovery of gold in the mid-19th century.
Politics: Liberal Party PM John Howard leads a conservative coalition; he has been in office since 1996
Economy: The strong, services-based economy has seen sustained growth; mining and agriculture provide the lion’s share of exports
International: Australia is a regional policeman; further afield, its troops are in Iraq and Afghanistan
Australia’s original inhabitants, the Aborigines, numbered a few hundred thousand before the European influx. But two centuries of discrimination and expropriation followed, and at one point the number of Aborigines fell as low as 60,000.
Today 99% of the population are of European or Asian descent, but calls for a formal apology for past injustices towards the Aborigines are still made. Indigenous Australians suffer high rates of unemployment, imprisonment and drug abuse.
The gradual dismantling of the “White Australia” immigration policy in the decades after World War II heralded an increase in the number of non-European arrivals.
Migration continues to shape Australia and is a politically-sensitive issue. The country has taken a tough stance on unauthorised arrivals. Asylum seekers are held in detention centres, which have been criticised at home and abroad, until their cases are heard.
Australia’s foreign policy has shifted in the past 20 years or so from Europe and the US to its near neighbours. It mediated between warring groups in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and deployed thousands of peacekeepers in newly-independent East Timor.
Australia’s economy is also geared to Asia. It is a foremost member of Apec, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and aims to forge free trade deals with China and Asean, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
The country has considered cutting its ties with the British monarchy. In 1999 Australians narrowly voted against plans for the country to become a republic
2. Facts
Full name: Commonwealth of Australia
Population: 21 million (official estimate, 2007)
Capital: Canberra
Largest city: Sydney
Area: 7.7 million sq km (2.9 million sq miles)
Major language: English
Major religion: Christianity
LIfe expectancy: 78 years (men), 83 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Australian dollar = 100 cents
Main exports: Ores and metals; wool, food and live animals; fuels, transport machinery and equipment
GNI per capita: US $32,220 (World Bank, 2006)
Internet domain: .au
International dialling code: +61
3. Media
Australia’s media scene is creatively, technologically and economically advanced. There is a tradition of public broadcasting, but privately-owned TV and radio enjoy the lion’s share of listening and viewing.
Media ownership rules have been relaxed
2006: Australian media set for shake-up
Ownership of print and broadcast media is highly-concentrated. For example, four major media groups own 80% of Australia’s newspaper titles.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) runs national and local public radio and TV stations as well as Australia Network, a TV service for the Asia-Pacific region. The other main public broadcaster is the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), whose radio and TV networks broadcast in many languages.
National commercial TV is dominated by three large networks. Commercial broadcasters have to carry a minimum percentage of Australian-made programming. Pay-TV services have gained a substantial foothold. Digital TV is available via satellite, cable and terrestrially.
Sport, news, game shows, imported and home-made dramas top the TV ratings in Australia. The industry has successfully exported some of its productions to English-speaking markets overseas.
More than 70% of Australians use the internet.
The John Howard government changed the regulations governing media ownership. The rules, introduced in 2007, allow for greater cross-ownership of press and TV outlets as well as higher levels of foreign ownership.
All information came from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
1. The tower is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Pisa.
2. Construction began in 1173 and work was carried out for the next 200 years.
3. There are conflicting stories that the tower was meant to incline however today this has been proven wrong and interventions are being carried out within the sub-soil in order to significantly reduce the inclination and to make sure that Tower will have a long life.
Information came from http://torre.duomo.pisa.it/index_eng.html
OMG this is going to be harder than I thought theres a few lists this will take me some time;
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World:
The Great Pyramid of Giza
1. Located in Cairo, Egypt
2.The monument was built by the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty around the year 2560 BC to serve as a tomb when he died.
3.New theories concerning the origin and purpose of the Pyramids of Giza have been proposed… Astronomic observatories… Places of cult worship… Geometric structures constructed by a long-gone civilization… Even extraterrestrial-related theories have been proposed with little evidence in support…
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
1.Located on the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.
2.The Babylonian kingdom flourished under the rule of the famous King, Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC). It was not until the reign of Naboplashar (625-605 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty that the Mesopotamian civilization reached its ultimate glory. His son, Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) is credited for building the legendary Hanging Gardens.
3. Description from greek source; “The Hanging Garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth. The whole mass is supported on stone columns… Streams of water emerging from elevated sources flow down sloping channels… These waters irrigate the whole garden saturating the roots of plants and keeping the whole area moist. Hence the grass is permanently green and the leaves of trees grow firmly attached to supple branches… This is a work of art of royal luxury and its most striking feature is that the labor of cultivation is suspended above the heads of the spectators”.
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Pharos of Alexandria
The Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind:
Stonehenge
The Colosseum
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Great Wall of China
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
The Hagia Sophia
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Seven Natural Wonders of the World:
Mount Everest
The Great Barrier Reef
The Grand Canyon
Victoria Falls
The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
Paricutin Volcano
The Northern Lights
The Seven Underwater Wonders of the World:
Palau
The Belize Barrier Reef
The Galapagos Islands
The Northern Red Sea
Lake Baikal
The Great Barrier Reef
The Deep Sea Vents
The Seven Wonders of the Modern World:
The Empire State Building
The Itaipú Dam
The CN Tower
The Panama Canal
The Channel Tunnel
The North Sea Protection Works
The Golden Gate Bridge
The Seven Forgotten Natural Wonders of the World:
Angel Falls
The Bay of Fundy
Iguaçú Falls
Krakatoa Island
Mount Fuji
Mount Kilimanjaro
Niagara Falls
The Seven Forgotten Modern Wonders of the World:The Clock Tower (Big Ben)
The Eiffel Tower
The Gateway Arch
The Aswan High Dam
Hoover Dam
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
The Petronas Towers
The Seven Forgotten Wonders of the Medeival Mind:
Abu Simbel Temple
Angkor Wat
Taj Mahal
Mont Saint-Michel
The Moai Statues
The Parthenon
The Shwedagon Pagoda
The Forgotten Wonders:
The Aztec Temple
The Banaue Rice Terraces
The Borobudur Temple
The Inca City
The Statue of Liberty
The Mayan Temples
The Temple of the Inscriptions
The Throne Hall of Persepolis
Petra
The Suez Canal
The Sydney Opera House
The Red Fort in India
