T - 16 days

The team at Cataract Gorge, Launceston, minus our fearless leader Mike.

With only 16 days until our departure we're making our final preparations for Sweden. Yikes! Where did all that time go?

It really doesn't seem like all that long since we were strangers at International House last year, trying hard to fight the early morning foggies with coffee so as to develop presentations on topics as obscure as terrorist platypuses. (Yes, they do exist. You have been warned).

But now, with only 2 weeks to go and a district conference, meetings and a term of language lessons behind us, it's hard to think of a time when we weren't friends.

It's been this friendship that has seen us through polishing of presentations, uniform buying (thank you, boys, for your patience as we treated you as our lifesize Ken dolls), selection of gifts and many a hilarious Swedish lesson. We've come through it all in extremely good humour which can only bode well for our upcoming trip.

It's been my pleasure to be part of such a tight-knit team - and we've only just begun!