Countdown to HESFES 2007.
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On Friday we go to HESFES (Home Educators Seaside Festival) 2007. Assorted members of my family have been going for years - I’ve never been however.
We’ll be camping for a week, during the end of the wettest June since records began, which also happens to be during the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament - it rains this week every year without fail. In fact I just realised that it will be exactly 3 years to the week since my last summer holiday. It rained lots then too.
I am not a big fan of camping. I’m not sure if it’s because my family caravanned a lot when I was younger, or whether my body and mind are aware of the fact that human kind has evolved and no longer needs to sleep ‘outdoors’ on the ground, whatever the case - I prefer holidays to be easy, not hard work - which is how I see camping. I am hoping that I can put my camping prejudice behind me and have a good time non the less, and I’m sure I will, because this holiday really should be fun, even if it does rain all the time.
Things will of course be different as this is the first extended family holiday I’ve been on. Those in attendance include myself, my girlfriend Steph, her son Jordan (who is 7), my parents and my youngest brother Al. So essentially we are two families going on holiday together. HESFES is a gathering of home educators and home educated kids, the later of which, both of my brothers and I were. Not having been I don’t know that much about it, other than that there will be hundreds of kids there and lots of activities, and perhaps most importantly there is a pub on site, with a playground next to the beer garden - result!
I’m hoping that the majority of the kids there will be ‘cool kids’, like I was (I think a lot of that came down to my ‘alternative’ upbringing/education), not little bastards. Hopefully there will be plenty of activities for Jordan to do whilst the rest of us relax and…enjoy the weather - yeah right!
We are in the process of manically getting everything ready before the 4 hour drive on Friday. The tent has been checked and everything appears to be in order, and today the annual airbed repairs were done - so far so good…fingers crossed!
Steph, Al and I are planning on moblogging the holiday here.
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