Sunday, 16 September 2007
The Oscars, the Olympics and the final farewell!
Everyone arrived back at Fieldbase on Monday for the final time. There was the usual mad panic to hit the showers and remove the accumulated dirt from the last three weeks. As is traditional (and necessary!) the trekkers were given the highest priority but everyone was nice and clean in time for the evening’s skit competition. The theme was ‘Life on Raleigh in the style of a west end show’ and as always the costumes were fabulous and the singing was suspect but everyone gave great performances and Alpha 1 was triumphant with their unique version of Grease.
On Tuesday night we screened the slideshow, which everyone loved and hosted the Expedition Oscars as voted for by the participants. The results were as follows:
Fastest walking trekker – Paul Nisbet
Best long drop digger – George Kinloch
Most talented chef – Joint winners Rejoice (Baby) Kandovzu
and Eustacia Kamusuvise
Most likely to come back as staff – Angharad Jones
Most likely to ruin porridge/custard – Matt Laband
Hardest to get up in the morning – Melvin Simons
Best day leader - Christopher Murphy
Best fire maker - Nambuli Usiku
Most likely to become Prime Minister - Nicholai Biggar
Most likely to be famous - Natasha Davidson
Most impressive facial hair - Alistair Scott
Most likely to strip in a skit - Nick Duke
Loudest snorer – Andy Parkinson
Most entertaining – Jack Warren
Most glamorous member of staff – Caroline Monks
Funniest member of staff – Rob Waterhouse
On Wednesday the staff team organised a mini Olympics competition with a Flip-Flop sprint relay, rock putt, Olympic Yoga, Kabadi and a Landrover pulling competition. The staff team won the relay easily due to many hours of practice from Charlie chasing various items across windy campsites. The rock putt was hotly contended with large throws from Nambuli and Melvin, and Laura and Jess leading the way for the girls. In spite of a very professional performance from staff member Lottie, Olympic Yoga was won by Alpha 3 (well they had no excuse after three weeks of daily yoga sessions whilst trekking). Kabadi was fiercely competitive and the Olympics were concluded with the Landrover pull. Alpha 3 were the overall winners for the Olympics, after a very impressive time in the Landrover pull.
The Alpha groups spent Wednesday afternoon preparing for the Endex party and the theme was “A Night at the Musicals”. Each group chose a musical and performed a song from the musical with costumes made from whatever they could get their hands on. Alpha 1 won the award for the Best Dressed Cast when they dressed as chimney sweeps and performed ChimChiminee from Mary Poppins. Kim, Flic and Caz were unrecognisable under layers of soot applied by rubbing the bottoms of kettles and pots over their faces. Alpha 3 had put in hours of practice for their song after their dismal performance in Monday nights skits, so they won by a landslide in the Best Song category performing Doe, Ray, Me from The Sound of Music dressed as the Von Trapp children. The winner for the Best Dressed Individual was Paul from Alpha 1 as Mary Poppins and the runners up were Danielle as a gangster’s moll in Bugsy Malone, Alex as Sandy from Grease and Chris as Maria von Trapp.
Final farewells took place on Thursday with everyone getting slightly emotional, especially the staff when waving goodbye to the participants. We hope that everyone had the time of their lives and that they now have friends and memories that will last a lifetime.
During the expedition everyone took part in the Raleigh Art Group and produced pieces of work, which will go on display in an exhibition ‘Art in Nature: A New Look at Namibian Rock Art’ at the National Art Gallery of Namibia. The opening of the exhibition, which will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 4th October 2007, will also be Raleigh’s official farewell as this summer’s expedition was the last ten week programme in Namibia for now.
The exhibition will run from 4th to 22nd October and include art work by young people who took part in both the five and ten week programmes as well as by Expedition Artist, Charlotte Goodhew. With running both programmes this summer Raleigh was able to select from the work of the 85 young people who took part in either one of them. Their inspiration came from Namibian rock art, in particular from the visits to the site of the White Lady rock paintings when trekking at the Brandberg or taking part in the Adventure Challenge in the same area.
On Tuesday night we screened the slideshow, which everyone loved and hosted the Expedition Oscars as voted for by the participants. The results were as follows:
Fastest walking trekker – Paul Nisbet
Best long drop digger – George Kinloch
Most talented chef – Joint winners Rejoice (Baby) Kandovzu
and Eustacia Kamusuvise
Most likely to come back as staff – Angharad Jones
Most likely to ruin porridge/custard – Matt Laband
Hardest to get up in the morning – Melvin Simons
Best day leader - Christopher Murphy
Best fire maker - Nambuli Usiku
Most likely to become Prime Minister - Nicholai Biggar
Most likely to be famous - Natasha Davidson
Most impressive facial hair - Alistair Scott
Most likely to strip in a skit - Nick Duke
Loudest snorer – Andy Parkinson
Most entertaining – Jack Warren
Most glamorous member of staff – Caroline Monks
Funniest member of staff – Rob Waterhouse
On Wednesday the staff team organised a mini Olympics competition with a Flip-Flop sprint relay, rock putt, Olympic Yoga, Kabadi and a Landrover pulling competition. The staff team won the relay easily due to many hours of practice from Charlie chasing various items across windy campsites. The rock putt was hotly contended with large throws from Nambuli and Melvin, and Laura and Jess leading the way for the girls. In spite of a very professional performance from staff member Lottie, Olympic Yoga was won by Alpha 3 (well they had no excuse after three weeks of daily yoga sessions whilst trekking). Kabadi was fiercely competitive and the Olympics were concluded with the Landrover pull. Alpha 3 were the overall winners for the Olympics, after a very impressive time in the Landrover pull.
The Alpha groups spent Wednesday afternoon preparing for the Endex party and the theme was “A Night at the Musicals”. Each group chose a musical and performed a song from the musical with costumes made from whatever they could get their hands on. Alpha 1 won the award for the Best Dressed Cast when they dressed as chimney sweeps and performed ChimChiminee from Mary Poppins. Kim, Flic and Caz were unrecognisable under layers of soot applied by rubbing the bottoms of kettles and pots over their faces. Alpha 3 had put in hours of practice for their song after their dismal performance in Monday nights skits, so they won by a landslide in the Best Song category performing Doe, Ray, Me from The Sound of Music dressed as the Von Trapp children. The winner for the Best Dressed Individual was Paul from Alpha 1 as Mary Poppins and the runners up were Danielle as a gangster’s moll in Bugsy Malone, Alex as Sandy from Grease and Chris as Maria von Trapp.
Final farewells took place on Thursday with everyone getting slightly emotional, especially the staff when waving goodbye to the participants. We hope that everyone had the time of their lives and that they now have friends and memories that will last a lifetime.
During the expedition everyone took part in the Raleigh Art Group and produced pieces of work, which will go on display in an exhibition ‘Art in Nature: A New Look at Namibian Rock Art’ at the National Art Gallery of Namibia. The opening of the exhibition, which will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 4th October 2007, will also be Raleigh’s official farewell as this summer’s expedition was the last ten week programme in Namibia for now.
The exhibition will run from 4th to 22nd October and include art work by young people who took part in both the five and ten week programmes as well as by Expedition Artist, Charlotte Goodhew. With running both programmes this summer Raleigh was able to select from the work of the 85 young people who took part in either one of them. Their inspiration came from Namibian rock art, in particular from the visits to the site of the White Lady rock paintings when trekking at the Brandberg or taking part in the Adventure Challenge in the same area.
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