I infiltrated the netdecisions summer party in disguise. Well you’d think I did, given that people I’ve worked and played with for four years completely failed to recognise me when they were stood about ten feet away. They assumed that the grinning ginger guy with the silver medal round his neck was part of the […]

Acording to this pamphlet about returning home after voluntary work, I may be about to experience ‘reverse culture shock’. Sixty percent of returning volunteers feel disappointed, and fifty-eight percent had difficulty talking about their experiences on their return. When I talk to my family and friends, their expressions will glaze over, and they may ask

I remember asking a colleague with an unusual hairstyle where he was butchered. “Singapore,” he said, “they’re all like that.” So when I was in Singapore, the first thing I did, (apart from drinking tap water and watching wrestling) was to get a trim. This had to be an improvement on the horrific tangled mess