Blog It Competition: Finland Experiences
A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from Schools Worldwide (which is the company that organised our trip to Finland last February) about a blogging competition. They basically wanted students to write up their trip experiences to put on on their website. I thought I might as well have a go, seeing as it wouldn't take that long to write 500 words (I could've written so much more) and it's always nice to relive a good experience ☺ It was a nice surprise to come home on Thursday to find a letter saying I was one of the winners of the competition! So I thought I would post what I wrote, just in case you're interested. Reading it back I suppose it's a bit cringey (definite over use of exclamation marks) but oh well, let's just say it puts across my enthusiasm.... After one and a half years of fundraising, practice hikes and kit shopping, Valentine’s Day of 2014 finally arrived and a group of 36 of us set off to Finland with our back packs and energy bars to wh