Tuesday 3rd February 2009 - Today I make two charts, one for the years Calendar Days, and the other for Kids in Park, proper Blue Peter styley - just need some toilet rolls and sticky back plastic. The calendar is setting environmental days throughout the year, where we can get involved with the local community or invite them into the Park. For example National Bird Week, Youth Day, Womens Day, Worlds AIDS Day.
Tonight, as he cooks a Mount Kilimanjaro of food, I get to know Ruhan a little better. He is 22, Afrikaan and was brought up in Cape Town. He is what we say in Yorkshire - like a yard of pump waater, yet he eats like a horse - growing lad I suppose. He seems to have a sensible head on his shoulders with a clear idea of his future. He has found what he has been looking for and that is God, he talks very openly and enthusiastically about his faith. At times I had to remember I was talking to a 22 year old, it was refreshing and in many ways quite humbling.
