TOM AINSCOUGH (EW04) is working at St Joeph's College in Sydney, Australia from July 2004 to June 2005. He returned to England on 8 June 2005, coming to Ampleforth in June 2005 and again on 17 September 2005 to watch the 1st XV. www.getjealous.com/tommyains

HENRY FOSTER (H04) is in New York. He writes [8 November 2005] "I arrived in May to take part in the Mountbatten Internship Programme which comprises of a work placement and a supplementary business course accredited by the University if Cambridge. I am working at Citigroup Asset Management as an analyst, and thoroughly enjoying life in New York City (only downside is that I missed the Ashes). www.mountbatten.org  [posted 8 November 2005]

ENRIQUE BACLAY (C04) is at a tutorial in Cambridge. He visited Ampleforth on 29 January 2005.

WILLIAM HICKMAN (O04) and ALASDAIR BLACKWELL (D04) are helping with the Missionaries of Charity [Order of Mother Theresa] at the Home for the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta. [posted 25 April 2005] . Earlier,

ALASDAIR BLACKWELL (D04), GEORGE OUTRED (H04), JAMES PAWLE (H04) and WILLIAM HICKMAN (O04) were in Varkarla, Kerala, India, and they met with OLIVER CASH (O04) and NATASH SANDEMAN (A04). William Hickman wrote [17 February 2004]: "Alasdair (Binny) and I are now in Bombay, but going to Goa soon, to meet up with Oliver Cash (O) and Natash Sandeman (A). I have seen the Taj Mahal, and gone camel trekking in the desert" Having travelled in Northern Western India, they plan to go South, hoping to do charity work.

MATIAS DE CAMILLERI DE MARCO (J04) has been in Malta. He was in Ampleforth for a week or more in January 2005 to take some examinations.

OLIVER CASH (O04) is in India, and is planning to travel with Alasdair Blackwell (D04), William Hickman (O04), and Natash Sandeman (A04) [see under Alasdair Blackwell]

TOM FITZHERBERT-BROCKHOLES (D04) is in Costa Rica with Raleigh International from January to April 2005. Tom writes [21 February 2005] of his Raleigh International expedition that "the last three weeks has been seriously tough, carrying about thrity kilos we walked about 200km" in about 38 degrees in the shade. "we got lost a lot as the maps were really bad and we even got stuck on a mountain for 3 days" He writes of the people on the expedition as "really good fun" and of "lots of fun and games" - "last night [20 February 2005] I had to do a performance of a dance routine made up by the girls in my group" After Costa Rica, Tom briefly returns to Britain and then goes with GUY BARTLEET (D04) travelling in Australia. On 19 September 2005 Tom spoke to this column while playing internet cricket [representing Pakistan] with PADDY WALLER (B04).  He had just returned from a relaxing fortnight in the West Indies with GUY BARTLEET and EDWARD FOSTER (H04)

MICHAEL CUMMING-BRUCE (04) is teaching in a village school San Fernando just south of Mexico City from January to August 2005 - teaching English and maybe football. Michael worked as a waiter in London for 5 months in the Autumn 2004. He has been accepted for a place at St Benet's Hall, Oxford from October 2005. His email:

mcummingbruce@hotmail.com

HENRY BYRNE (O04), BEN DOLLARD (D04) and ALICE ROBINSON (A04) were in Thabon in northern Thailand from January to March 2005 helping in a school in a small village. This is a project sponsored by St John's Catholic College in Bangkok, and to which Ampleforth has been invited to share since 2000. The Sisters in Thabon wrote [5 March 2005] "Our three British volunteers - Alice, Ben and Henry are preparing to move on. They have given themselves to teaching English to our students for 6 weeks as part of their gap year experience before entering university. They are the latest Ampleforth students to come, keeping on the tradition started in 1998. Instead of staying with families in Thabon itself which the volunteers before them did, they lived with the families of students in other villages, sharing food and bedspace, getting up early in the morning, coming to and from school in old 6-wheelers-turned-school-buses. It is an experience they value very much. On the students’ part, it is an experience of welcoming a (older) brother / sister of another race and culture into their homes and into their lives. A mutually enriching experience".

NICHOLAS AINSCOUGH (E/EW04) and MARY-ROSE SIDGWICK (A04) have been teaching in Antigua for three months in early 2005. "For the last three months, we’ve lived in Antigua and travelled daily to the indigenous village of Santa María de Jesús 30 minutes away. We stayed with a fantastic Guatemalan family in central Antigua who have looked after us more than we could ever have wished for. We work up at Santa María 5 days a week, Monday to Friday. Each volunteer has 2 classes a day. The focal point of the project is the children, and they are incredible in their willingness to learn and their genuine affection. For example, we watched a boy progress from not really having the communication skills to interact with the other children to now being able to join in during class and really enjoy himself at school.

It has been an honor and a privilege to work so closely with these children and adults. We will never forget our 3 months with GVI, making a difference". Nicholas was at Ampleforth on 17 September 2005 watching the 1st XV.
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EDWARD GUIVER (H04), HENRY JONES (J04) and HENRY TUGENDHAT (O04) went to Santiago, Chile in March 2005 to work with the Manquehue Movement, and were there for varying times until September 2005..

ADAM McGEE 9D04) is at a tutorial college in Oxford retaking ASs and A2s.

JASON McGEE (B04) is at a tutorial college in Oxford retaking ASs and A2s.

GEORGE OUTRED (H04) see under Alasdair Blackwell

NATASH SANDEMAN (A04) see under Alasdair Blackwell

FREDDIE SHEPHERD (J04) is in Tamil Nadu, Kerela, arriving in April 2005, helping with Tsunami relief, helping build a youth community centre.  He was in St Patrick College, Silverstream, New Zealand teaching at a Catholic boarding school for 5 months in 2004-2005. He has been a London builder for two months in February and March 2005, enjoying the experience of being "out and about with lots of people, listening to music" - he was plastering, doing brickwok, labouring. He returns to the UK in July 2005 and goes to Durham in October 2005 to read Theology.

CHARLIE VILLIERS (EW04) is in Paris, learning French.

ANDREW VALENZIA (C04) is taking a gap year in Malta working with one of the countries leading law firms. He has received an unconditional offer to study finance and business management at The University of Manchester in 2005. He is expected to visit Ampleforth again in early October 2005.

TOM NEAVE (O04) has been retaking examinations. He plans to study architecture at university.

JAMES PAWLE (H04) see under Alasdair Blackwell

HUGH SHEPHERD (O04) is retaking A levels and has been working at Harrods.

PADDY WALLER (B04) travelled with friends to travel in South America, Australia and New Zealand [April 2005 onwards]. Earlier he worked in England.  He is going to Bristol University in October 2005.

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