My first ever blog.... on Day 1 of Silent Gal!

Well hello there!
And a very warm welcome to my blog! This is my first post so bare with me if its really random and there's a lot of stuff on it!

There is so much stuff going on I probably won't bore you with it all... but here's one that is pretty interesting (to me anyways)!

I started a sponsered silence today which will last 3 days. People who know me have already commented that it will be impossible for me to do it as I like talking too much :) but I'm gonna give it a go! What is it for? I hear you ask, well I shalt tell thee! The silence is to raise money for a trip I'm going on. I am going to a land enriched with culture and beauty. A place filled with geisha and very advanced technology and also the very proud home of the Pokemon Museum... yes you guessed it, its Japan!

I am very excited about it as I'm going to do something pretty worthwhile. I'm gonna be working in a hospital for 6 months which should be really interesting!

Anyways, back to the silence! It's a little weird not being able to talk and makes you realise how hard it is to communicate without speech! I got up this morning and tried to explain to my mom that I needed a new toothbrush from under the sink. So I start banging on the stairs, right, to try and get her attention but shes in the kitchen, washing up and watching GMTV on the t.v!
SO, I bang somemore and she FINALLY comes to the foot of the stairs and says, "What's the matter, Amy?" So realising I couldn't just ask her for the tooth brush I try doing some sort of movement that resembles me brushing my teeth with an invisible toothbrush, hoping she will understand what I'm trying to tell her.

However, at 6 in the morning when I haven't quite woken up yet, my limbs aren't quite working properly so instead of 'me brushing teeth' my mom gets something entirely different (which I don't feel comfortable disclosing :P)!

Then after that minor fiasco, she leaves for work and starts reminding me to turn the heating off, turn the lights off etc..... and shes doing actions with the words! It was like she thought because I'd stopped talking, I'd lost the ability to understand or comprehend human speech!

So the moral of the story is....... don't take things for granted because you miss them when they're gone! Stay tuned for day 2..... oh the joy!