Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition: This Weekend – 6 May 2011

Tomorrow morning, a number of my classmates, friends, and I set off on our practice Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award expedition. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (or DofE as it is known by participants) encourages hundreds of thousands of young people to get out and about every year. In addition to the main expedition, a Bronze Award participant also has to spend at least three months volunteering, at a value to society of £19 million a year. For my volunteering, I’m counting the fact I’m a Young Leader at a local Cub group.

Faced with a choice of walking or canoeing, I chose to go by water. In preparation for this weekend, myself, Jake, and Huw went to Maidenhead Sainsbury’s, food-shopping. The only problem was, as this film shows, that Jake is an incredibly fussy eater. Goodness knows how we’ll survive our DofE!