IN OCTOBER'S VOLUNTEAR:Halloween video treat...Email of the month… Guess who is on Netlog…
Halloween video treat...
Howdy Volunteers! How’ve you been since we last spoke?
We have a very special treat for you this month. As October is the month of spooks and ghouls, we at ProjectScotland decided to provide you with a few scares of our own. For your viewing pleasure we have 3 of the most terrifying videos floating around the interweb this Halloween:
1) Perhaps the scariest of the lot to kick off proceedings. I don’t know about you but i certainly found this one terrifying.
2) Next, we have a video that is so bizarre it is positively frightening. Apparently, tourism to Scotland was down 34% in the 12 months after this video was released. I might have made that up. Possibly.
P.S. The man in the video, Jesse Rae, stood in the Holyrood elections last year in the hope of becoming the MSP for Roxburgh & Berwickshire. He gained 318 votes. He plans to stand again in 2011. Honestly.
3) If you’re a fan of science fiction then you’ll know about ‘alternate realities’. The next video offers an insight into such a reality where men had perms, wore ridiculously tight trousers and clearly got dressed in the dark. Scientists refer to this ‘reality’ as the ‘1980s’. Scary.
Email of the month...
Greetings Voluntear! I am halfway through my placement as a Project Scotland volunteer with Fast Forward in Edinburgh and things are going great! I am getting so much more out of it than I initially thought I would. So far I have completed youth work sessions, visited peer education groups and youth centres, completed my 200 hours MV award, worked on the Scottish Peer Education Network (SPEN) and just a few days ago, I took the Fast Forward volunteers through their first public speaking training session. Also, this year I became the youngest ever winner of the National Speech Contest - nothing like a bit of shameless self punting! Really looking forward to the next month or two because I am going to be working with the Fast Forward volunteers as they go for their Youth Achievement Awards. As part of that work, I will be going round colleges in Edinburgh with a couple of the volunteers doing drug and alcohol sessions for students. Should be awesome! Alongside all that stuff, I am in the process of setting up a Bebo group for peer educators all across Scotland. I am being helped by volunteers from Fast Forward, WhoCaresScotland, LinkLiving and the Volunteer Centre Edinburgh in setting this up. I'm hoping that the group could become a support network and a discussion forum for anyone who needs advice, wants to talk positively about their work or just wants to share ideas and experiences with other peer educators. Its going to go online at the start of October so the Project Scotland Bebo group will have a friend! I'm loving my time here, the work, the people, everything is going well. Volunteering through Project Scotland has been such a positive experience for me so cheers bucko! Tom Scott
Cheers for that, Tom. You're now £55 richer. Kerching!.
Guess who is on Netlog...
We have started getting a little greedy here at ProjectScotland. Not content with a profile on Youtube, Facebook, Myspace and Bebo we've only gone and set up one on Netlog.
So if you're a member of the site then get adding us as a friend. If you're not a member why not sign up? Go on, we're short of friends and ProjectScotland doesn't like being a 'Billy No Mates'.