Five Giants: 2010

Friday, 31 December 2010

Cuba- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Che is not a Cuban but he is so loved in Cuba.

Lived and buried in Cuba.
You see him all around the country in various different forms.

Santa Clara is his revolutionary home town.
His memorial is there too.

(Do not visit on a Monday as it's closed.)

Santa Clara, Cuba

Veradero, Cuba

Cienfuegos, Cuba

Camaguey, Cuba

Baracoa, Cuba


Trinidad, Cuba (even on cigar cases!)

by an old lady in Santa Clara, Cuba (note no longer in circulation)

I wonder if Che would be this popular if he had lived till this day...

Thursday, 30 December 2010

My bicycle in pain!

I had two punctures in a row!

My back wheel was gone yesterday morning found out
when I arrived at work but luckily my colleague had magic
hands and fixed it for me without taking the wheel out!

And found out this morning that the front one was flat!
Didn't have enough time to fix it so just took the bus to work.
Fixed it up in the evening, front one is easy.

I love cycling and having punctures would be the only pitfall.

Friday, 24 December 2010

Merry Christmas

I did manage to come back early this morning, 2am!

Though my luggage is still on holiday....

I want my rum and cigars back!!!!
This is the Christmas decorations I saw in London
before going to Cuba.

Selfridges, London

Oxford Street, London

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Christmas greetings from Habana!

I thought I just leave a quick note to say that I am still in Cuba, Habana.
I should have returned on 20th but it snowed SO heavily in Europe that
all the airports in the UK have been closed for days.
Heathrow is partly open today but Paris is still quite bad. Yes, I am flying with Air France.
I have a provisional flight for tomorrow if not 23rd. I'll have to check again tomorrow.

Life is good here, with the sunny weather and rum cocktails everyday :)
I will share more when I get home about the fantistic trip!
As much as I love to be here, I would like to get home soon too.

I was hoping to share a nice Christmas decoration I saw in London,
but it might be a bit too late now! I wish everyone a very good Christmas.
Merry Christmas!!!!!

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Cuban Dream!

I am off to Cuba tomorrow for 17 days of travelling.

So glad that I am able to make one of

my dreams come through!

I get to see Fidel Castro's Cuba

though it has changed since he revolutionised

the island in the Caribbean sea.

I shall return to Cuba after Castro's death to see the change.

I can feel the heat wave!

I hope to share some fabulous photos on my return.

Adios!

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

1st Snow in London!

A mega cold wave has hit the UK!

Scotland has been snowing for days and

it only just hit London today.

It literately snowed ALL DAY!

Despite the snow, I did cycle but very low visibility.

Monday, 29 November 2010

Case work

It was very sudden today when I was writing some case notes
in a file that I felt I did not want to do any more case work.

I am not sure yet but I might want to consider doing

permanent duty with set time frames to return to

casework if I want to after the set period.

Though, I will have to discuss this with my line manager
at supervision. I know which case has triggered this thought,
but I might just need a change of style.

We shall see what happens!

-Case work: our team have max.of 20 cases allocated to individual
                   social work to follow arising issues.
-Duty: 9am-5pm emergency work with cases that are not allocated,
           on social workers' absence and further issues. Often the days
           are quite unpredictable.