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Sometimes it’s good to be wrong.

18/06/2010 in TOTO Bangladesh by Mark Chenery | 15 comments

Sharna Bremner
Outreach Blogger
17 June 2010

Today was the last official day of our Project TOTO Bangladesh adventure.

Our final day working with the ActionAid Bangladesh crew was bittersweet, sharing our amazing blogging successes with each other, having an incredible buffet lunch with the entire Sponsorship team and saying goodbye.

Members of the DA14 CJG comment on the blogs from DA2.

We have achieved so much in the last two weeks and will be providing a post-trip wrap up on our return to Australia, but for now, there a few things that I would like to share that haven’t made it into my previous posts.

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It had to happen.

11/06/2010 in TOTO Bangladesh by Mark Chenery | 5 comments

Sharna Bremner
Outreach Blogger
11 June 2010

After being in Dhaka for almost a week and eating an unbelievable amount of food, it was bound to happen. One of us was going to get sick. But who would’ve thought it would be KFC that would be my undoing?

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Kids really do say the darndest things.

02/06/2010 in TOTO Bangladesh by Mark Chenery | 8 comments

Sharna Bremner
Outreach Blogger
2 June 2010

Those who know me will tell you that I’m not really a kid person. Sure, they can be cute, but I personally prefer teenagers or adults.  Kids are loud and they often have sticky hands for some reason. As for babies… Well, they make me nervous. They’re so tiny and delicate and you can’t tell what they’re thinking which, quite frankly, scares me a little bit.

Recently, however, I’ve discovered something a little worrying. It seems that maybe Whitney Houston was actually right. (That in itself is a scary thought.) Maybe children really are our future. Sometimes, kids just get it, no matter what it is.

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