New Shoes!

New shoes for the big walk!!!

These shoes spent the day on call in the wards, in dental and ED! Luckily no blood or caries splatter!!!!

Keep the money coming into our Oxfam account! Thank you to all those who've so generously popped money through!

From Lyd!

Fundraising Chocolates

Batches of chocolate at the workplace today!

Acknowledgments: Yu Kai for creativity with the display boxes. :)

Small print stuff: The chocolates are as tasty as they look! $2.50 each with proceeds to Oxfam.

Wellington weekend at Rimutaka

Finally putting up the photos for the Wellington weekend at Rimutaka.

SMILE! team photo :D

TEAM SMILES

Awesome times in the Hutt with the awesome foursome! 

Our Blog: >1 week, >100 views

Hiya peeps,

Hope all is well with everyone and recovered from the training weekend. And recovered from this most recent weekend at work.

A few updates:

This blog has been up for just over a week, and we just had more than a hundred views so far. :) Its sorta trailing off according to stats, but a great response at the start - so keep up with the posts and updates.

A big shout out to Melissa - to be the first to our group page to support Oxfam for the 100km trailwalker. Thank you Melissa!

The Soldier Award at top is jointly awarded to:

......... Drumroll please .....

Yu Kai - For completing all the trails at Training Weekend

AND

Stefan - For the 20km run after first day of Training Weekend

We got the welcome pack for the trailwalker at the end of last week - including yummy sample chocolates and posters. Got some posters put up at work already. Go team Smiles!

Chocolates for fundraising will arrive at team leader's home hopefully middle of the week (rather than a self admitted chocoholic's place) - so we might sweeten the work place.

We also met up with Tom today, who shared some tips about fundraising - Its all happening.

Also, there is a logo competition to score T-shirts for our team and support crew. Check it out by clicking the link. Time to put on creative thinking caps, everyone.

Note Competition Deadline = Wednesday 29 February 2012.

Still have to post the photos from the training weekend on this blog, but need to figure out how to use the Picasa slot on the side. See you all around. :)

Team Smiles - Who are these people?

Sign in on Facebook and viewed friend's profile photos... Nek Minnit... Team Photos. :)

An illustrated response for the question: Team Smiles - Who are these people?

in the beginning....

Gossip Girl dishing out the d-low.

Spotted. A training weekend was held in Wellington this weekend in the Rimutaka Forest Park. The team of four went out beyond  Wainui and into the wilderness...





A little birdie has told me to date that lots of Nutella, sour lollies,  snicker bars, chocolate biscuits and 2L of Raro have been consumed. We hope the resident dentist is advising all remembering to brush and floss!

Walks were up steep inclines, some slipped down ravines and everyone got wet when crossing small rivers. In total team leader Yu Kai Lim apparently clocked 31kms.

As proof of hard work -Yu Kai's self-timed portrait has attempted to capture the various blisters on the soles of his little feet. I can see one mole, what can you spot?

As they say no pain, no gain...



The team seemed well rewarded in their travels. The amazing views, beautiful Aotearoa bush or the sense accomplishment after a long day would satisfy any  tired soul.




Over & out for today! Until next time. Gossip Girl xoxo

Go Team Smiles

What an awesome week! Go Team Smiles!

From signing up for the Oxfam trailwalker at the start of the week, catching up over lunch to discuss arrangements, then signing for the training weekend on Friday to finally doing the trails, it has been busy.

On this blog, there will be updates on our activities - from fund raising, training, social catch-ups as well as for the big event itself. Do share photos, videos, tips and put up polls on this site. Any ideas or suggestions for the team would be helpful.

Announcement: Tomorrow is Gear Night - where we get to pick up gear for the walk. We should go after work, as they organised discounts for trail walkers.

We have a Team Fundraising Page, which can be accessed by the link below:

Oxfam Trailwalker 2012 - Our Team Fundraising Page

Will work on content for it during the upcoming week. Have a good one, guys. :)