Thursday 23 June 2011

Duke of Edinburgh

Tomorrow and the day after i will be spending all day at my school practicing for my DofE(Duke of Edinburgh) expeditions. For those of you who don't know what this program is, it's something you can do in your spare time and you get awards for it after, many universities accept these awards(in the UK) and can add alto to your reputation.

There are three levels you can do this at, Bronze, Silver and Gold. At this moment i am doing silver which involves me to do 6 months of a skillful activity, which i have done my drum lessons, 3 months of a physical activity where i played badminton and 6 months of charity work which i have yet to find somewhere to do that in. So currently I've done my skills and physical work, but have yet to start charity.

Now another part of DofE is the expeditions, i have a practice and a final. They consist of sleeping 3 nights and 2 days walking. I will pretty much just be camping and then walking and that's it. Each day I'll be walking 16km.

So if any of you have any suggestions for charity work or helpful ideas for my expeditions such as easy meals or anything which would benefit me then i would love to hear about it, or if any of you have done this before.

21 comments:

  1. is very interesting what you do... You give dog food in amenity centers (:

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  2. Good luck :)
    And for now i don't have any ideas, so sorry.

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  3. I'm really inspired by you, man.
    I wish I had the will for that shit.
    As for food... if you have some extra money, bring some jerky XDDD

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  4. Only if I lived in the UK =(, good luck with everything

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  5. No suggestions, but what ever you end up doing, I hope it works out for you!

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  6. Goodluck with your DofE!!! ;D

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  7. i dont have any idea :/ but good luck with that :)

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  8. Heard about this in The Inbetweeners ;P

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  9. Wow, that sounds really cool. You're going to be a badass when you're through!

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  10. My friend did this! Said he quite enjoyed it!

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  11. you could help out in a clinic or nursing home.

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  12. DofE expeditions are so much fun! service is a hard one to think of, I did babysitting and I know a few people who helped out in a church on a saturday making tea, coffee and serving biscuits to the elderly. good luck!

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  13. See if you can help at a youth center or animal shelter.

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  14. I thought the Duke of Edinburgh expeditions were for very young people... like children.
    I have clearly misunderstood in the past. Oh bother!

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  15. I have a few friends who did the DofE, not my thing though

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  16. Good luck. No tips here though.

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