Here is a list of donations sent directly to me by individuals or groups during this trip. Some of these donations are either going towards building homes in Oshika-hanto, and some will be spent on smaller projects during my visit there later this month. More donations come in every week, and there is still a [...]
Today is my last day with Mr W for two months — I guess this means that as of tomorrow, I will be in a long-distance relationship. I remember writing about them in the relationship section of the Being A Broad book but hadn’t expected to be in one myself. My former student, Ai, and [...]
I took up running almost a year ago, after having done absolutely zero exercise for about 25 years (I was just laughing at my blog post the day I took it up: http://www.carolinepover.info/2011/01/854/) and within six months I was doing 5K every day, and 10K once a week. I lost one and a half stone [...]
Yesterday I dropped off the wonderful Japan van at your Trowbridge office — I cannot thank you enough for your generosity in supplying me with a vehicle so that I could travel around the country gathering support for Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. Your van visited about 50 schools and community [...]
My TED Talk is online at last! It seems like a lifetime since I gave it — so much has changed but one thing is still the same. I do, indeed, still love my bum! And want you to show your derriere some devotion too … So if you or anybody you know has any [...]
I’ve stayed in touch with so many of my teachers over the years — my old Head of Sixth form is still at my old school and has been very helpful in organizing various activities to support Japan in recent months; I have popped in to visit my old primary school teacher before (she is [...]
I go back to Japan in exactly one week’s time. It’s been an incredible seven-month trip in so many ways — a month longer than I had planned but lovely to spend Christmas here for the first time in years. I’ve got a lot to get organized in the next week — I’ll be spending [...]
2011 was the year where my life’s Control-Alt-Delete button was hit. And I didn’t even know I needed rebooting. But whether I liked it or not, I found most areas of my life got a bloody good shake up — sometimes by circumstance and sometimes by choice — and I ended the year feeling more [...]