A Travelling Penn...

Just a couple of weeks ago I fell across the blog of an old friend.

Actually I should clarify: she's not old. For matter neither am I. And I'm sticking to that.

Tanya and I worked together in a turbulent time of tea, tuna and tomatoes a couple of years before I left Australia. While I've been making hay my way here in Ol' Blighty, she upped sticks and taught English in Korea for a while without having any local lingo under her belt (among other things). You could say she's a baptism by fire kind of girl.

(I confess I can't remember which bit of Korea peeps. Apologies. Tan, you'll just have to do a proper guest post on Gidday *wink*)

Anyway, it's called travellingpenn.

Tanya has started her blog to record her experiences as she undergoes her transformation into a emergency communicator for World Vision. We are only seven posts into the journey so far so it's the perfect time to get in, so to speak, at the grass roots.

Her writing is warm and lovely, the tone ranges from self-deprecating to poignant (yes already - in seven posts!) And let's face it, her job, facing one of the world's greatest humanitarian issues - child poverty - puts her in a unique position to share, to make a difference and to enrich the lives of those with whom she has the enormous privilege to come into contact with.

As I said, she's only seven posts in and it promises to be an extraordinary journey.

I hope you'll share it too.