paralympians are inspirational

The paralympic games are astonishing.  The athletes have every reason not to take part in sport.  In most places it’s hard enough for able bodied people to get involved in sport but support and facilities for disabled athletes is so much harder to access.  These men and women are amazing.  Their spirit, determination and sense Read More …

NYA2008 days 3 & 4

The rest of Sunday’s session went ok I think.  We got into some of the upside to Open Source church and talked about how we could use social media to continue (or start) conversations like we have with Facebook and Twitter. Sunday night was Christmas!!!  We had a full Christmas dinner with turkey and all Read More …

NYA2008 days 2 and 3

It all seems like a bit of a blur.  I feel as if I’ve been here forever and it’s only been 2 and a half days.  It’s not one of those ‘when will this end?’ kind of events, just one that has you up at 7am and not in bed until very late.  When you Read More …

NYA2008 day 1 (friday)

Well it’s here.  After all the waiting and procrastinating (by me!), NYA2008 is here and I’m not sure what to say about it. As I said before I have history with this thing so it’s a little odd being here.  Despite not having been at the National Youth Assembly for several years is seems in Read More …

1 day to go til NYA2008

So, 24 hours until NYA2008 begins.  How am I feeling?  Well I’m just beginning to get excited after a day of not really caring much.  I guess that happens when you’ve been working on something for a while and it eventually comes around! This event is a bit of an technology experiment.  We’re using multiple Read More …

2 Days til NYA2008

I’m getting excited.  And nervous.  I’m still not done! Today’s news is that NYA2008 will have its own blog with a team of bloggers posting their thoughts and impressions as we go through the weekend.  We hope to have some thoughts from our keynote speaker, Mark Yaconelli, some delegates new and old and maybe even Read More …