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Sunday, 31 August 2014

So, aside from making squid shaped hats and sewing Egyptian princess costumes, one of the things I've been doing with my time is volunteering for stuff.  Mostly this has been at Jett & Zali's school where I've been helping out on the uniform shop, teaching Jett's extension maths class (very badly),  being the parent volunteer on various excursions,  and lately I've offered to run a couple of orienteering workshops.

In the broader world I've taken on some extra jobs for the Oceania Orienteering Championships in January, and more recently I've volunteered to help on the timing team for the very cool Hellfire Cup 4 day mountain bike race in November.   I think I've mentioned before that I like doing timing stuff - it's nice and social and sheltered and rewarding. 

So today I went out to the Pickles Hill mountain bike race near Craigieburn Dam to learn all about the new fandangled timing system they were using which is the same one the Hellfire Cup is planning to use. It was quite a long drive but a nice day and I was working and learning together with another volunteer so it was really fun. It's true that you get just as much out of this sort of thing as you put in - it's just a nice environment to be in.

My next major challenge (now the shark hat is behind me), is working out how to make a brand new orienteering map of Waimea Heights in time for the workshops in September - uh oh!