Joe Isbill
10-07 2021 20:06
wrote:
Where to start...It was our DofE practice expedition and it hadn’t stopped raining the first day and it wasn’t going to on the second day either. I took the map and looked at it and said why dont we follow the short cut along the road. About 5 mins later the group safety leader pulls up in his van and starts berating us for walking along a main road to save 1 mile of walking we were sent back to follow the marked route and at the next checkpoint were given a 5 mile penalty loop. Safe to say I wasn’t popular with the boys in our group but Alviar was the one to say come on then lets go get this done and also took the map out of my hands for the rest of the trip. When it came round to the real thing and we had to make a presentation his fascination for wild flowers carried us through the project that without him would likely have been a load of flowers and green plants on some slides with a group of lads just looking at them saying the colours of the plants. I will always cherish the hours we played video games and he would always stick to the one character he knew best no mater how much we suggested diversification, and to be fair he rarely put a foot wrong playing that character. Although never taking arts he certainly could draw, I still have the hand drawn birthday card he made for my 18th birthday that drew on the fact i always spent too much time looking at and buying clothes in the common room rather than putting that time into schoolwork. There was also all the Japanese sweets he always encouraged us to try when he spares that he brought in for a snack and after a trip to Japan brought us back bags of sweets for us to try ourselves. As well as that there was the obsession with pens that infiltrated our friendship group, with at one point all of us having the same Lamy pen but all in different colours to save time knowing who’s was who’s! Those are just a few memories of the many I could write paragraphs about
Joe Isbill
10-07 2021 20:06
wrote:
Where to start...It was our DofE practice expedition and it hadn’t stopped raining the first day and it wasn’t going to on the second day either. I took the map and looked at it and said why dont we follow the short cut along the road. About 5 mins later the group safety leader pulls up in his van and starts berating us for walking along a main road to save 1 mile of walking we were sent back to follow the marked route and at the next checkpoint were given a 5 mile penalty loop. Safe to say I wasn’t popular with the boys in our group but Alviar was the one to say come on then lets go get this done and also took the map out of my hands for the rest of the trip. When it came round to the real thing and we had to make a presentation his fascination for wild flowers carried us through the project that without him would likely have been a load of flowers and green plants on some slides with a group of lads just looking at them saying the colours of the plants. I will always cherish the hours we played video games and he would always stick to the one character he knew best no mater how much we suggested diversification, and to be fair he rarely put a foot wrong playing that character. Although never taking arts he certainly could draw, I still have the hand drawn birthday card he made for my 18th birthday that drew on the fact i always spent too much time looking at and buying clothes in the common room rather than putting that time into schoolwork. There was also all the Japanese sweets he always encouraged us to try when he spares that he brought in for a snack and after a trip to Japan brought us back bags of sweets for us to try ourselves. As well as that there was the obsession with pens that infiltrated our friendship group, with at one point all of us having the same Lamy pen but all in different colours to save time knowing who’s was who’s! Those are just a few memories of the many I could write paragraphs about
