The next steps...

So my time here in Tamale is coming to an end...for now at least. Over the last few months we've shot enough footage to make about 20 short documentary style movies which will be launched on the Create Change website in the coming months. The next job is to edit the raw footage and to do all the other things necessary before a finished movie pops out the other end. We've already started this process and I completed my first short film (Chelseas staff video) last week. It's really great to see all the work that we've put in over the past 7 months finally appear in a tangible form but I expect the best feeling will omce when the videos are launched on the site and it starts making money for all of the projects we have been working on here.

So in a few weeks Shannen heads for Vancouver to finish the editing and get the fundraising under way but I'm going to take some time to hang out on the continent to see if there are any adventures waiting out there for me.

The rough next steps are to head for South Africa to pay a visit to my aunt and uncle for a few weeks. Ive arranged to arrive in Cape Town on the day Ireland and going to win their first Grand Slam since...well since I don't know when, so it'll be a great reintroduction to the world of sport for me (I've been surviving on sports sections from the Irish times for the past few months)!! After that the country list for my travels is Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya. Of that time I'm planning on spending about 3 or 4 months in total on the road and about 2 months volunteering at a school in northern Tanzania but more about that in due course.

So for the moment its goodbye to hot dusty Tamale and hello nice cool beaches of southern Ghana!!