Butterflies and Growing Up

Hello everyone.

I’m very sorry this post is a day late. It’s been a little bit hectic this week with studying for a NAB and then a Prelim but things are pretty much back in order now (well, as ‘in order’ as they can be with ditsy me). Now I can begin to properly focus on this Saturday…

Scottish Island Mum (Fiona Doubleday) has given me a wonderful opportunity to be part of her Butterfly Tree Project this Saturday. The Butterfly Tree is a charity that supports rural communities in Zambia - they provide the necessities such as safe water, feeding programs and health and education for the people in Zambia.

To raise money for this charity (namely for malaria nets) Fiona has planned a variety of sub-projects including her workshop opening tea party this Saturday. Here people will hopefully donate to the charity and begin buying her delicate and beautiful hand-made butterflies which have mesh-like wings to signify the malaria nets they are raising money for.

As I am very interested in film and hope to go into film production in my future Fiona has kindly asked me to film the event. It will be wonderful experience for me and will hopefully compliment the hard-work put into this event. We have decided the most important point to get across is that just £5 can save a child’s life in buying a malaria net. The film will also feature some natural scenes from Arran and of course the cutting of the workshop’s ribbon and the tea party itself. All very exciting!

(These pictures are from The Butterfly Tree facebook page and belong to them.)

In other news, it is now beginning to hit me that I only have a few weeks left at school. Ahh. I don’t really know what to make of it. Part of me is really excited to have some freedom in my life and see where my gap year takes me but the other part of me is going to miss high school so much. The fact that I live on an island, everyone pretty much knows everyone in our school including the teachers so I will literally miss everyone. I’ve found myself beginning to appreciate the little funny moments that happen in our 6^th year common room and the friendships I’ve made a lot more knowing that we’ll all go our separate ways soon. I think my 6^th year at high school has really helped steer me towards what I want to do and who I want to be (cheese anyone?). I think I might talk about this in a separate blog post altogether because there is a lot to talk about and I feel this may turn into a very, very long blog post.

I hope you’ve had a lovely week so far and if you can please check out The Butterfly Tree’s website!

Mollie

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