Looking back over my list after a long absence i can see somethings which i don’t think i will ever achieve purely because i don’t really want to. i think it is important to accept  this and change these goals to ones that i will be able to and most importantly want to accomplish.

This change in heart has come about as something i have recently found. The happiness project. The book which runs along with this details the project of one woman who tries many differnt things over the space of a year to make her self happier. One thing was being herself and accepting herself for what she is, including her likes. This mean not doing things because you think u want to or you think you should because everyone likes doing that.

Having read the book i am being Alex and allowing myself to accept that i like doing certain things and not have to do lots of others because i think i should.

When i started this project i thought that this would be a tough one to complete.

since then i have managed to visit quite a few places in different countries and shave exceeded my aim of 5. I have also have plans to visit Spain later this year.

China, Russia, Mongolia in 2008

Italy, Belgium and France 2009

Turkey in 2010

I had to retax my car this year in January which was a big goal as i felt this was a  major part of  owning my own car.

This weekend i played a game of scrabble with my family. was a great chance tos pend some quality time togather.

Maine Journal tag and postcard

Originally uploaded by Naturegrl64

Browsing through people idea’s for making travel journals and i came across this. i think i may use this idea to create a journal for my 2009 travels. i will have to get hold of some of the rings and some water colour paper to use as pages.

For the wedding i made each one of the bridesmaids a set of jewellery to match the dress’. These were tiger tail wire supporting a turquoise heart above a set of blue and white sparkling swarski crystal beads. the earings were just the swarski beads in blue and white on a thin silver rod.

This picture shows three  of the bridesmaids wearing the jewellery this will document two completed tasks

1. make the jewellery for the wedding

2. be a bridesmaid

I was lucky enough, while on placement, to be able to go to the zoo on a schooltrip with the foundation stage children.

we went off to whipsnade, a zoo i haven’t been to in years. Although the children cried on leaving and complained almost all day (when are we going to get there? when is lunch time? when are we going home?) it was a great day out. We saw the new Lema inclosure, the elephants the tigers, the sealion show and we played in the park. By the time we got home i was just as tired as the kids probably were, not helped by the breaking down of one of the coaches causing choas when we tried to leave.

My book

This is the front cover of the photo book that i created using Blurb.

My trip to China covered all these things on my list.

1. Get a stamp in my passport
2. Go to an Olympic event
3. Keep a travel journal
4. Spend more than 14 days out of the country in one go
5. Use an overnight train

We were away for three weeks and our first journey was on an over night train, On entry to all the countries we visited we had our passports stamped. When we got to Beijing we managed to get tickets to the canoe/ kayak event and over the whole period i kept a travel journal of what we did.

The trip we took to china covered a whole range of my targets

This is one not completed but am working on it.

1. visit 5 different countries (4/5)

Visit five different countries, i have managed 4 out of the five and am off to Brussells next week so that will complete it

i have been to

• China
• Mongolia
• Russia
• Italy