Sinister: My ink polaroid

[Amy Skelton]

Hey there Sinisterites,

As my little old camera went to heaven a few weeks ago and I haven’t got 
around to getting a new one yet so this ‘ink polaroid’ will be text only - 
use your imagination! It tells you a little of what I get up to during the 
weekend....

VSO TODAY

The major part of my weekend was going to the VSO Today - Northern region 
conference in Manchester.

Many of you won’t know what VSO is - it’s a charity that is involved in 
international development - it aims to reduce poverty, improving quality of 
life through using skilled volunteers.

Anyway, the conference was all about where the charity is going in the 
future, a time for us supporters and volunteers to have our say in forums 
etc. There were lots of really informative workshops on during the day 
including ones on asylum seekers, HIV/Aids, using the media to promote the 
work we do etc......

So what is my involvement with the charity? Well, I’m going on one of their 
youth schemes after I graduate from uni. in the summer. Whilst their main 
scheme wants people with at least two years experience in their profession, 
the beauty of the youth scheme is that it gives young people a chance to get 
experience of international development work before they go in to their 
profession.

In my case that will be environmental engineering. I have to sort out my own 
project for next year and I’m at the very early stages of sorting this out 
so I don’t know where I’m going or exactly what my project is yet but is 
going to be in the sanitation /environmental engineering/education sort of 
field.

Many hours are going to be spent in my local development education centre 
using the resources there to sort myself out.

CHINESE NEW YEAR IN CHINATOWN...

After the conference a few of us went into Manchester’s Chinatown for a very 
lovely meal in ‘The New Emperor’. The food was lovely. Warning - the 
starters are large - they could almost constitute a main course in 
themselves...

The decorations were lovely in the whole area - it was heaving with people 
and the atmosphere was really cool - this was only quite early in the 
evening as all of us needed to get trains do our own thing.....

....I went to visit an old friend from my ‘Year in Industry’ - I haven’t 
seen much of him since he came back from his year in Japan.....

DANCING TO ECLECTIC TYPES OF MUSIC....

Well, it was Offbeat’s 6th Birthday night on Friday and I was there bopping 
away to indiepoppunk music and eating cake - mmmm.

For the first time ever I actually left early - not because it was bad - no 
way! I got a message on my mobile saying that an old housemate had made an 
impromptu visit back to Sheffield. By this point Offbeat had long sold out 
so I had to go....

I ended up at Urban Gorilla, which is a breakbeats night - two extremes or 
what?! Yes, I did get some dancing action here too although not as much as 
at Offbeat. Whilst I do like some breakbeat music it is in a bit of a sparse 
manner.

SPORTS SHENANIGANS...

Sadly the only exercise I got this weekend involved walking around streets 
and dancing as opposed to more hardcore winter walking, kayaking, my usual 
yoga routine etc.

This is because I fell down the stairs a couple of weeks ago and bruised my 
coccyx - I would like to point out that I was not drunk it also means I’m 
not getting any either (sorry for lowering the tone).

Thanks to Brian for pointing out my Freudian slip when spelling 
aforementioned body part in an email to him. It all goes back to those 
biology lessons so long ago when you spell it incorrectly once your brain 
sometimes slips back into it!

Don’t worry - here comes the signing off bit....

Well anyway, I’m enjoying finding out more about what you all get up to over 
weekends. I have to admit it isn’t often I get chance to read all the posts 
(which is why I hardly ever post myself). I’m using them as short revision 
breaks when I’m doing some of my work on the computer!

Take care all....

...Amy
(There are several Amy’s in Sheffield so I’ve been asked to clarify that I 
have quite large curly fair hair)

P.S. Plug/List Abuse: - If you are interested in finding more about VSO 
other than what I have said you are all net wise so go to: -

http://www.vso.org.uk

....any nurses, social workers, mechanics, engineers, teachers, the list 
goes on ...... out there - you are needed!!!!!!


P.P.S. If anyone has any tips on breaking up the message without using rich 
text (thus not being allowed by Honey's computer then please let me know!

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