Preparations for my trip to Kenya haven't gone too smoothly this month, but I am nearly there. Since the Natwest Women's Series against India has finished, I have spent 4 weeks on a placement with Sky Sports Cricket. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and gained some valuable experience in the world of television. However, this also gave me some contacts to add some prizes to my raffle such as signed memorabilia from Shaun Pollock, Allan Donald and all the Sky Test commentators.
During my placement, I applied for my Kenya visa by post. However, when after two weeks my application and more importantly passport hadn't been returned, I rang up to see what had happened. To my horror they had never received my application so off to the passport office it was. After an appointment at 7.30am, 3 days and not to mention a large some of money later, a shiny new passport arrived in the post. I was glad to see the post was still working.
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