I'm moving to Lebanon

[Elbonio]

This might come as a bit of a shock to some people, but i20 is going to be my last LAN. :(

I've been offered a job working for UNICEF for 5 years in a small villiage in Lebanon. UNICEF are running a porject there to get schools set up in some of the more remote villages and i applied for a position teaching PE and basic sports in one of the schools.

I dont know exactly which part of the country i'm in yet but i know they're all remote and a lot dont even have electricity so i'm afraid when i go in September this year this could be the last you'll see of me for a while.

AFAIK we get 2 short breaks a year - one at christmas and one other week when we choose. I could take this week round the time of an i-series but the cost of coming home may be too great.

I decided this is what I wanted to do because ?my university course is a mess tbh and i thought i'd do something worthwhile whilst I was able.

I'm gonna miss everyone here and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the good times and fun ;)

[Zeuseh]

Nice, i ws thinking of going to africa to build houses for a few months after collage which would be cool. You should have a great time mate and we will have to make sure i20 is a bash for you :x

Will miss you and your madness with smileys greatly

[Nivek]

will you have the internet?, i will miss your forum hax

[Elbonio]

Originally posted by Kevin
will you have the internet?, i will miss your forum hax

I doubt it :(


they can pass messages on but they wont have internet in the villages - they may not even have electricity!


i'm not quite sure what i'm going to find when i get there tbh...

[RocketKnight]

We've been discussing this for the past couple of months now. I'm glad to see you've been able to come to a solution which takes into consideration the money you've already spent on university. The remaining loan money will provide an excellent springboard to this opportunity and I think it's a truly wonderful way of making the most out of a difficult situation. I wish I were able to do something like this, perhaps at the end of my degree I'll do something similar. Truly noble.

Clan Beanz will miss you, and I'm sure a lot of others in the community will feel the same way. Of course we'll need a party when we've finished our uni exams, something in the early summer. Cheers for everything. Let's just hope there's basic internet access where ever you wind up. :)

[Elbonio]

yeah a shindig would be great :D


I owe alex and a couple of other people a big thanks for helping me talk this over the past couple of months... its been a hard decision but his support has been a world of help ;)

and thanks for not letting the cat out of the bag before I had announced it!

[FeAr]

:eek:

Very noble of you.
Hat off

[Boffykins]

Not to be disrespectful, but... mind if I giggle?

[Afty]

Originally posted by Elbonio
I've been offered a job working for UNICEF for 5 years in a small villiage in Lebanon. UNICEF are running a porject there to get schools set up in some of the more remote villages
Congratulations!

I look on you with newfound respect and admiration - I've found myself keen to do something like this for years but never built up to actually getting off my rear and doing it.

Hats off to you boyo (what the hell is a PC geek doing teching physical fitness???) :)

[Freelance]

perhaps the wrong day to announce this for the cynical. good luck if it's true though

[Zenith]

Originally posted by afty
Congratulations!

I look on you with newfound respect and admiration - I've found myself keen to do something like this for years but never built up to actually getting off my rear and doing it.

Hats off to you boyo (what the hell is a PC geek doing teching physical fitness???) :) I can't believe YOU of all people fell for this afty.

Check the posting date ffs.

[gemz]

Elbonio omfg what about that thing you were gonna do which u told me all about! ;)

[Elbonio]

Thanks for all your support guys


Gemz: thing?

[Boffykins]

You know. That thing. With the Stuff. And the travel. And the distance. And the rar rar rar

[Bitty]

It took me two lines to realise the joke.

Are the rest of you half asleep? :p:

[Cabe]

with elbonio every day is april fools.

[Elbonio]

ok so ppl are starting to realise. The penny took a while to drop though.

you're all peons tbh - Get some date reading skillz!

:D


http://www.parachutingtrees.com/crap/aprilfools.gif


Okay first of all, anyone who knows me will *know* that me teaching PE is the biggest joke in the world. I cant run 5 metres without coughing up phlegm and blood.

Secondly Rocketknight was in on it and nobody spotted his stroke of genius by finishing his post with the words "wind up"

I have to say though i am impressed with the amount of people that believed it and wished me well!

Though I do have an intention of doing some volunteer charity work abroad at *some* point i would really need to be in a better position than i am now - and yes my uni course is a shambles tbh but i cant really back out now :rolleyes: ;)

And I do feel slightly guilty now about ppl saying well done becuase i'm not actually doing it :eek: ! but erm.. yeah.

Just to take away my guilty conscience i do do a fair amount of charity work - just not in Lebanon!! But still.. sorry to dissappoint!

/me runs away to Lebanon to hide!!

[gemz]

yer as boffie said, that thing, with the stuff ;)

[FeAr]

me is tired :rolleyes:

git!

[Killy]

heh as soon as i saw the title i knew it'd be an april fool, but wp anyway :)

[Gifted]

yea... maybe coz im sat at my desk aware of april fools... i read the title and thought.. oh well here's another!!

checked the time and wooooowww 1st of april!

[KingDaveRa]

There was one thing that struck me about this: I didn't twig the whole April fool's thing. I just felt it totally impossible by the fact that probably NOBODY on here could be parted from a PC and Net connection for longer than a week without turning into a gibbering idiot.

But it was certainly a good one :)

[Techie]

lol took me all of about 30 seconds after clicking title to figure it, but then again i am not half asleep been up since 6am. damn this cough :(

[Mamacita]

LOL Well done :)

Unfortunatly I also in my job, do a lot of work for UNICEF, and the situation you said you'd got was either so out of date or never even exsited - good luck next time luve ;) (PLD Mark and Alex though!)

[Afty]

Originally posted by Zenith
I can't believe YOU of all people fell for this afty.
Check the posting date ffs.
Hehehe, that's what working a 13 hour day does to you. When you finish, you should go straight to bed :)

Though the fact that I've been considering doing something similar for years probably made me feel it wasn't quite so far out of the realm of probability ;)

Give me 5 minutes and I'll come up with three more brand new excuses! ;p

[Nivek]

your making the sleepless look stupid

[Switch`]

Elbonio you should have said that you were Moving to Kenya :p they might have got it then :p

[Elbonio]

Dont feel too bad


it's entirely plausable that i decided to spontaneously drop everything and become a PE teacher in a small village in Lebanon.....

[Afty]

Originally posted by Elbonio
it's entirely plausable that i decided to spontaneously drop everything and become a PE teacher in a small village in Lebanon.....
To be honest dude, the fact that you (obviously) think it's so far fetched from reality says alot - there are thousands of people who do just this sort of thing every year, all over the world!

[Elbonio]

still... it is a little unlikely isnt it :p


especially posting it in the rants/raves forum at midnight of april fools


;)



but yes you're right it's not totally far fetched


I heard a really good one on the radio this morning - There are some arch bridges near where I live - the longest of its kind apparently - anyway its quite old and on the radio this morning they said that McDonalds had boought two of the arches to put a massive "m" over them ... ie the golden arches


Afty/silk75/bonkers - this is the Stockport arches btw - over the M60!


loads of people believed it, despite the fact that this bridge is like so protected that they wouldnt let anyone breathe on it :rolleyes:

[Afty]

Originally posted by Elbonio
especially posting it in the rants/raves forum at midnight of april fools
Oh indeed, that's what got me. v nice timing ;)

[Freelance]

Originally posted by Elbonio
I heard a really good one on the radio this morning - There are some arch bridges near where I live - the longest of its kind apparently - anyway its quite old and on the radio this morning they said that McDonalds had boought two of the arches to put a massive "m" over them ... ie the golden arches not as good as ours. apparently the HMS Scilla, sunk last weekend for an artificial reef was floating again. 5 listeners went and checked, then phoned in to say it was still on the bottom

[Zeuseh]

lol pld elbonio cought me at tierdness.

but im generally dumb so thats ok :x

[Techie]

lol

an aprils fool made the front page of our local paper, they claime iestyn harris, who used to play for warrington in rugby was making a return, someone had edited a picture to show his head on mark hiltons body,m and ent it out, one fo the women from warrington wolves club spent 5 hours on the phone to various media companies cos they thought it was true. now they are hunting for the person repsonsible who phoned up the vclub the next day to apologise anonymously (sp? too tired)

Ste (I-Radio)

[Steadders]

I'm not going to dignify this with a real response.

This isn’t an April fools joke!

On April fools, I put signs on peoples back saying "hello my name is mark" when their name actually ...is mark and I tell them I'm going to do it so I don’t offend them.

This is just OTT.

[Elbonio]

shush mike.


just becuase for a minute you thought i was going to be a PE teacher in a small village in Lebanon....

;)

[Steadders]

you won't be laughing if it actually happens.

[Lord Fondlemaid]

I have emailed the Jamaican Prime Minister. No reply yet on this matter.

[Elbonio]

he only works fridays