Going places?

I wonder if one day I'll stop...! I just came in to the living room, (after two days pretty much locked up in my room) to watch what appears to be a really crap horror movie - Wrong Turn. I just happen to like crap horrow movies. Nice way to relax?!

It seems like about 2 weeks since I got back from Sicily, but actually its about 48 hours! What a time the last 2 days have been, but productive... and inspiring. Me and Paul have done a lot. The next few months are likely to be crazier than ever, Poland, Portugal, Israel, Palestine, Tunisia and then something amazing. In June we go to Colombia... yes... Colombia! :)

So... we have a lot to do, and thats just the International stuff... the local stuff, well, we just got a potential offer of an office in North Tyneside College, we're getting a new office in the YMCA in North Shields and one in Northumberland on the horizon. Now we need people. Going places? I really hope so...

I made a video last week...

Reggae, video and Trappeto

This was a really great weekend. Just what I needed... Me and Peppe spent all day yesterday making videos, you can see what I came up with on the Global Voice website. Then we went last night to a Reggae night in a social centre, which was amazing... dancing, drinking... laughing.. a lot.

Today we have been in Trappeto which is the small town that Peppe and Vito are both from, a really beautiful place by the sea. Vito's mum is a great cook... we had a really huge dinner and then came back to Palermo. I'm currently working through the proposal for the "Union Get Peace" project that Vito will submit tomorrow, checking the translation. Its another great project, developing relationships between Europe, Israel and Palestine with the aims of aiding the peace process through increasing active citizenship and the involvement of women...

Pizza just arrived... ciao for now...

Sicily? Cold? Never...

Its true! Its really really cold here! I don't think its as bad as back home where apparently they have snow... buuuut... its different, because in sicily they don't have central heating! Last night it honestly felt colder inside than it did out. Strange.

I'm feeling a little worse for wear this morning, after a night in La Champagneria - a bar in central palermo, with Peppe, Arturo, Silvia, Vito and others... it was a great night. Anyway... I have CoMed website to arrange and some talks with Vito to get on with...

Servertastic! Back online...

Wehey! The server is back online and we are back in action. Still got an e-mail problem so if anyone has tried to e-mail me in the last 48 hours I probably didn't get it.

While having this slight "crisis" situation I have been using G-mail... which I have to say is really fantastic. You get a whole Gig of space and a load of nice features, never seen a web-mail like it. I have invitations left so if you want one just let me know.

Hill family bloggers

Seems the whole family is at it...

Here are the links to my family blog spots!

Eve's Blog
Jon and Mandy's Blog
Sarah's Blog

Blogtastic!

Server is still down... crap.

Adamo does Palermo take 2...

Ok, so...

3 months on since my last post and I somehow find my way back to Palermo... I was going to write some more here at Christmas after my family members seem to be so active on Blogger, however, suprise suprise I didn't find the time.

Its been an incredible 3 months and its just getting crazier and crazier... I had probably one of the hardest working few weeks of my life interupted by some amazingly wonderful social times with some of my favourite people... We did the project...

"1 castle (in some of the worst weather I ever saw) , 21 countries (turned out to be 18)... anythings possible"

...and I didn't believe that quite as much as I do now. An incredible time, new projects, many new friends, great times with old friends... and a future really beginning to seem realistic.

I had this time planned in Palermo for a long time, I think I booked the tickets just after my return from the last message... and yet still it was a problem. I knew I would need some time off after the project, but as Paul has pointed out to me, it was not really the most well timed trip. There is too much going on at home... and with missing my original flight I arrive here due to the amazing help of Mr La Fata... three days late.

And today, well... after a night in stansted airport last night I got to Palermo at 10:30am, picked up by Vito only to find that the Consult and Design server has gone down.

Yet still there is a certain optimism inside me at the moment. I don't think so many crazy things have ever happened in my already crazy life within quite such a short time but I'm just doing my best... All I can do.

Anyway, I am going now to meet my dear friends in the city and hope to forget about the situation back home. Even if it is just for one night.