Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday, enjoying the sunshine and taking a well-earned break after the extremely busy (amazingly productive) end of term challenge days!

I am really encouraged to see that many of you have been keeping the blog active with comments and kinds words to one another, I know that many people admire the blog and all the work you are putting in to keeping it up to date in preparation and anticipation of the Water Challenge launch!

Thanks to our friends from the Valley Fm Radio station in Bo’ness who gave us a shout out. Thanks Sam, Larissa and Abz! We really enjoyed your visit to the school and I personally was so proud of all the interviews the pupils at Wallace High gave; they sounded amazing on the radio!

With this superdooper link in mind I want also to invite you all to meet up. Lilias is running a trip to Alton Towers on Tuesday and has asked me to invite all of the Wallace High Soul Touch team! I have more details of the trip and consent forms so please start blogging if you would like to be part of it! We leave at 1am Tuesday and return 1am Wed morning! The cost is £45 (you can pay this in instalments if you wish).

It is an awesome opportunity to get to know other young people who share the same interests and are experienced in “being the Change”! You guys have also so much to contribute and I’m sure the valley FM team will be hyped by all the work you’ve put in to Soul Touch so far…

Ok, so before I babble on for Scotland all that’s left to say is Happy Holidays. Thank you…for caring, for making an effort to support people other than yourselves and for impacting so many lives by living yours right! You amaze me!

Hope to see you Tuesday!

Ps bring earplugs…because I’m terrible on roller coasters!

Love, thanks and blessings in abundance Miss B x

Air Waves!

"Get caught in the wave" is what's aptly woven across our “Soul Touch/Ugandan” notice board at school and that is exactly what is happening: the pupils at Wallace High School have literally started a wave of enthusiasm and excitement that is sweeping across schools, churches, homes and individuals around the world, motivating and encouraging others to make a difference and to “BE THE CHANGE”!
I can proudly say that I have had another awesome weekend full of praise and thanks for the young people at Wallace High School and Bo’ness Academy/ St Andrew’s church. Last week the two forces got together for the first time since meeting over video conferencing on skype. The gorgeous crew from Bo’ness were invited to visit Wallace High on Friday and so after kindly accepting the invitation they gave up their time to come and interview our team.














The interviews were fantastic, packed full of information about organisations Dwelling Places and Raising up Hope for Uganda. After some nerve-racking recording the takes were edited and then aired live across the airwaves on Valley FM this morning. This has allowed more and more people to hear about the awesome work of these organisations from the voices of the young people who are committed to supporting them.


So, well done teams (in Stirling and Bo’ness) and an especially huge THANK YOU to Lilias who co-ordinates, plans, prepares, eats, sleeps and breathes working with these young people...you are amazing!

Guys, you are an example to us all that together we really are better and that united we can accomplish so much more. Also lots more exciting texts and emails have come in from people who have heard about the Water Challenge and want to become involved. Miss McHale, in Leeds, has been in touch to say her pupils have already downloaded the sponsor sheet and are taking up the challenge starting… tomorrow!

Finally I’d like to give a huge shout out to Tim and Annette Gulick, in Argentina. You guys are such a huge encouragement to Lorna and I and now to all of the young people we are working with. Thank you, we love you!

So guys, we have one week left of term to get everything ready for the “Water Challenge launch, which is taking place the first week back after summer! Keep up all the hard work and the momentum. You started the wave, invited others to get caught in it and now you have to roll with it!

It’s HUGELY exciting!
Love and blessings Miss B x
ps...what do you mean you're not allowed to eat in the studio?

Wallace High Goes Over The Airwaves :)

Today we met pupils from Boness High School, who have thier own radio station, Valley FM, run by St Andrews Church. They came to interview us for their radio show on Sunday. They asked us about our Challenge Week and the Ugandan Experience. We told them about the blog, the Water Challenge and our Skype link-ups with Uganda, India and Boness.

It is amazing that they have taken the time out to come and visit and interview us. The whole group is really lovely, even though we all got nervous when it was our turn to speak. Thanks very much guys! :)


Please listen to the show, Sunday from 12 - 2, at www.valleyfm.org.uk :)

Welcome Miss MacHale!

Dear Miss MacHale and all of her pupils. Miss Bonnar has told us about your enthusiasum about THE WATER CHALLENGE! We would be very happy to include you in this years WATER CHALLENGE as we want it to be a great and successful event and we want are excited about the opportunity for it to go nationally. Thank you for participating in THE WATER CHALLENGE 2009. If you have any questions we would be happy to answer them and are really excited your invlved.
Lots of love,
Donna and Caitlin on behalf of Soul Touch, Wallace High School xx

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Hi guys,

Just to let you know that Mr MacRae at Highland Spring has generously donated 300 bottles of water for our launch day! This is just the beginning...it's going to be huge!

Hope you're all well and ready for the meeting tomorrow at lunchtime, 1.15 in Miss Bonnar's room L103.

See you there, bring your lunch and your ideas!

Carlie

Good Morning Mini Soul Touchers, I hope you've all recovered and have had some good, well earned, rest after a busy week of challenges! I am going to announce the Water Challenge at my church (St Andrew's church, Bo'ness www.standonline.org.uk) tomorrow morning and I am hoping that some of the people there and the youth team with take part in the Water Challenge! I've got my whole family signed up...although not all of them know it yet!

Carlie and the advertising team still have some letters to send out on Monday. Any ideas you can contribute or help you can give her with that is very much appreciated! We will meet at lunchtime!

Some of us stayed at school after the bell yesterday and spoke to more of the children from Dwelling Places Children's Home. They had beautiful smiles and are already expressing lots of love and thanks for all the help you are giving them. Just knowing that you are thinking about them really makes a difference to their lives! They asked me to say a huge "thank you" to you all!

Also Rita Nkemba, the founder of Dwelling Places, extends a huge thank you and is looking forward to meeting you all in October when she is in Scotland.

Have a great weekend, Miss B x

To Mrs Dawson,
Thank you so much for the lovely card you gave us. We much appreciate it. We are so far really enjoying the things we are learning! We hope that we can make a difference this week as it would mean a lot to us and we are glad that you are doing that too. The Ugandan children would be very happy to hear that you are giving them money to help change their lives. Thank you again, we really appreciate it! 

From Caitlin, Ashleigh and Donna xxx