Famous Phil

With departure imminent I've been wondering about the final thought
to leave Oxted's students with. My dilema was that my final thought on the expedition might be their first thought about it! However, that would appear to not be the case.

Tonight was Oxted's Open Evening with 1500 people through the door and in the region of 80 student guides doing an excellent job as tour guides. What was really pleasing, and suprising, was that nearly every one that came into Geography introduced me as "Mr Avery, who is about to go to Antarctica." Many of them even went on to talk about what I would be upto, how I was getting there, the wildlife etc. etc. It didn't matter whether or not they had been in my class, seen my assembly, come across me on Duke of Edinburgh or
written an article for local papers, they all knew about it.

It just goes to show that great stories do stick; those students tonight make the effort of fundraising and the danger of going worthwhile.