Anyway, I'm thinking of doing this: www.capitalfm.com/china (I think that's the URL). It's a 6000km sponsored walk across the Great Wall of China in March 2013 for charity, raising money for teenagers with cancer. Every fibre of my being wants to do this as it's without a doubt the first opportunity I've ever had to do something on this big a scale but I'm faced with some problems:
1) It means missing a week of uni in my second year, and if my calculations are correct it'll be the last week we're in before study leave, meaning an exam will be on the horizon, meaning I'll be missing some crucial stuff for a degree that I really care about. Part of me is telling myself that there'll be plenty of time for charity work without sacrificing (potentially, if I really fuck up the exam) three years worth of work. A selfish point but a pretty valid one.
2) Okay so there is a £299 non-refundable booking fee. That would be fine IF they didn't want a minimum sponsor of £3200. I come from a pretty poor background and raising that much money in a year...well, I don't think it's possible and if I couldn't do it, not only would I have wasted a lot of time collecting sponsors but I wouldn't be able to do it and I'd lose 300 quid.
3) The walk involves some "steep climbs" and I am TERRIFIED of hiking. Not on flat ground, obviously, but give me any kind of hill and gravelly ground and I go to pieces and freeze. I even struggle with bits of Holcombe Hill! So yeah, it might literally kill me.
I'd really appreciate it if people would give me some advice on whether to go for this or not because I am so passionate about charity work and I do really want to do it, I'm just not sure if it's too much out of my reach for the time being :(
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