I climbed down a building!!!

Yup. And I did it face first too! Turns out I'm easily persuaded by doughnuts. My boss told me that if I went down face first instead of in a traditional seated position, he would buy all the full time volunteers doughnuts. Well, I couldn't very well turn that up now could I?

Klara and I arrived at Guy's Hospital Tower a bit early, so she went to volunteer and I went to go walk around the Borough Market. The market was full of fresh breads, cheese, fruits, flowers, sausages, pies, and lots and lots of vegetables! The colors are so vibrant there, I was tempted to buy most of the food just to look at it. A couple of other YAGMs and abseilers went back with me after we successfully made it down the tower alive and we got lunch, so I was happy :)

Now, the actual abseil. We got up to the top of the tower and all those going down "the normal way" had a lesson and practice session. Those of us going face first didn't get any of that, they basically just pushed us over the edge. Nah, I'm just kidding, but we didn't get to practice. By far the scariest part was climbing under the scaffolding and onto the edge of the building. There was a man holding my ropes behind me and another man 35 stories below at the bottom of the building holding the other end of the ropes. They lowered me forward until I was parallel to the ground, and then told me to take my hands off of the rope. My answer to that was "WHAT DO YOU MEAN TAKE MY HANDS OFF THE ROPE!??!?" but it turns out they just wanted to take a picture of me doing the 'super man' pose. After that climbing down the building was actually really fun! A definite adrenaline rush, and way worth it to raise the money for the children.

If you have donated money to Springboard for Children by sponsoring me, thank you thank you thank you thank you so much!!!!!! And if you haven't, please consider doing so. Every pound helps! The kids are amazing and every new resource we can get helps them learn and grow. Your help is much appreciated! Just click on the link to "Just Giving" on the left hand side of this blog :-)

God's peace and blessings to all, I miss you so much!

Erin