Thanks to everyone who could make it last night 🙂 Was awesome to catch up with everyone in the same place at the same time and find out a bit about everyone.

As a follow-up or for those who couldn’t make it, below is a quick summary of some of the things we touched on over dinner…

• Passports – Most have provided a scanned copy already; for those who have or will be getting new passports soon, can you please scan and email (or take a photo and email/message) me a copy when you can.
• Vaccinations – If you haven’t got onto finding out about vaccinations, now is a good time. I’ll do a separate post on this shortly.
• Flights – Am waiting on a revised quote but at this stage we are looking at flying Jet Star, departing around midnight on the 6th Jan. We will have a stop-over in Singapore both to and from Australia. More details to come once I’ve confirmed our booking.
• Chocolate money – If you have sold any complete boxes of chocolates, can you please bring the money in over the next few days. By the end of the week, I’ll email anyone who has handed money in, and let you know how much is profit etc and if you’re happy with the figures I’ll look at loading the amounts onto your respective EDH account early next week.
• Fundraising – We didn’t get to chat about this, but if you are still keen to do a group fundraiser, especially if you need some more money in your EDH account, then both Head of Primary School’s (Carramar and Duncraig) are keen to hear from you for a fundraiser idea that we can run at each campus. Only want to do this if enough of you want to do it, but you have the support and approval…just need your ideas and enthusiasm.
• Instalment – Still a few weeks off yet, but just to keep in the back of your mind that the next instalment deposit of $500 is due on 1st September
• DarkLight – For a bit of fun we thought we would organise a couple of games of Laser tag at DarkLight in Joondalup one Saturday night. At this stage we’re looking at around week 9 providing that there aren’t any conflicting school events on then. Will post exact date once we have worked it out and we can then book the place out. Check out their website if you haven’t been there before – http://www.darklight.com.au/
• Cultural Awareness and Travel Preparation – As a team, we really want to place a priority on ensuring that you are all prepared as best you can be for not only traveling internationally, but being immersed in culture far different from ours. In support of this, we are conducting a few sessions over the next few months to prepare you and give you an insight into the culture you will be entering into. Shortly, I will do a separate blog post regarding dates and what we will be covering.
• T-Shirt designs – Last night there were a couple of t-shirt designs floating around, and some more designs which Rowena and Kirby have been working on. These are also on the Facebook group which I believe most people were added to last night. Feel free to give your feedback on them and once there are a couple of possible options, we will decide on which one we will go with and go about getting the t-shirts printed for us…nice work so far!!

That’s about it for the time being. Will post more details soon….

/Mr Belson