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A quick re-group between water activities in Aberdovey.
we walked up to where the camping group would be emerging from out of the valley so that we could walk the last part of the journey back to the minibus with them all. Now, bearing in mind the weather they had just walked and slept through the day and night before, we expected to find meet them all completely soaked through and exhausted. Indeed, they were just that… but they were also completely elated and full of a sense of achievement together with what appeared to be a new found family bond, and they were excited to be sharing their adventure with us.
“I don’t know what I was worried about. In the space of week I felt like I had a second family!”
This is too where I met Joshua, my RAF participant who had agreed to be the ‘one’ to share his story and experiences with me.
Joshua was actually the 200th person to be going through the Annington Challenge and what better way to mark that milestone than to interview the young man himself.
Joshua’s father Serves in the RAF and is based in Lincolnshire. He was the one to share the good news with Joshua when he had been selected initially for a place in the Serious Adventure group.
Joshua said, “When my dad told me I had got one of the places I felt so excited but nervous all at the same time.
“Then when the time actually came to pack and go, my nerves set in again. Whilst dad was driving me to meet the coach in Birmingham, I kept telling myself it’s going to be fine. I was really nervous about the unexpected. Then,
by the time I’d chatted to some of the others on the coach and realised everyone else felt the same - then to find out where our rooms were going to be and who we’d be sharing with, I felt so much happier.
“The funny part then was having to make our own beds. There were six of us per room and it was hysterical working out how to make our bunk beds up. I think I was about the last to finish.”
Joshua Clark and Caroline Woodward.
raf-ff.org.uk | Winter 2018 | ENVOY
© Annington Trust.
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