My 15 year-old son left yesterday on a World Challenge trip to Africa. He will be gone for a month and will have little or no access to phone or internet connections. This, of course, will be difficult for his Mum and me, but his main concern before leaving seemed to be the lack of access to QPR transfer information. Anyone else undergone similar QPR âcold turkeyâ.
Good luck to Stroller jr, I hope he has a great time, my 1 regret is I didn't travel enough in my youth.
Thanks Gaz, I think it will be great for him, whilst scary for us. He's taken a couple of QPR shirts that he's grown out of to pass on to local kids. Start of an African supporters club perhaps?
I spent 6 months or so in some National parks in Zambia in 2004. Without electric or well..anything we made do with listening to sports news on the world service! Amazingly out of 16 people we had two rangers fans! Went back a couple of years ago. Missed the whole Hughes out Redknapp in moment! Only found out when I got on the plane!
I'll be in Japan for three months from October onwards. I'm annoyed that I'll be missing some key parts of the season but I'll catch the first couple of months and then pick up in January. I'm hoping to get a half season ticket. Do they still do those?
They get involved in some local charitable projects Roller, but it's mostly geared towards building self confidence and awareness of other cultures.
What a brilliant thing to do at that age - huge respect and I hope he has a brilliant time. I suspect once he is there other things will keep him occupied. I lived abroad a lot pre internet and travelled on the cheap for 14 months in 86-87, frequently in places where English papers were not available. I didn't miss QPR at all, I was having far too much fun.
Perhaps we could send ThickerHoops out here then! In the early days of this forum we had a posted called MaidaVale who was a school lad. I'm sure that he went out to Africa to do something worthwhile but was quite reluctant to talk about it even when I got Brixton to ask him directly. More power to his elbow.
My littlest daughter went to the Gambia, just to help out with an Art project in a school...she learnt far more from them than they did from her. Incidentally, she had her camera stolen off her when she was out and about. Kids at the school found the culprit and dragged him and the camera back into school, she was given the camera back, he was made to apologize in front of everyone...but I do not know what happened next, I sort of understand it did not involve the police, but some form of internal justice, for embarrassing the school. She found pictures of him and his family on the camera when she got it back. She came back really much altered, more aware of the world, and a lot more mature (and they got some artwork...that she said was nowhere near as good as what they did without her)
No...just family photos of himself and his family...all really quite sad (and also not a very good alibi)
I wish I'd known at the time, I have worked out in Banjul for a while and know a lot of people in The Gambia.
