Thank you so much everyone for your support and donations for my trek from Coast to Coast ! My thighs are like tree trunks, my feet have stress fractures and my right arm has gone numb but the trek from one Coast of England to the other has been completed! It truly was a physical and mental challenge to walk for miles each day knowing that you had to get up and do the same thing again the following day. There were highs, like the views over the Lake district after climbing 780 metres, meeting other fellow walkers, seeing Englands beautiful landscape and there were lows- walking in sheep shit for most of the time, being in so much pain from my legs that I couldn't get up in the night to use the loo. But it was an amazing feeling to get to Robin Hoods bay in Yorskshire and dip my muddy boots in the sea knowing that we'd crossed England using nothing but our little legs and carrying everything we needed on our backs. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me and VSO with all your lovely messages and donations; it really means a lot. Thank you for visiting this page! For those of you who don't know, it's now confirmed that I will be going to Malawi from September 2010, for a year, to work with Voluntary Services Overseas as a doctor! Yikes. It's something I've always wanted to do and I'm very excited about going and hopefully making a difference to those who need it the most, however small. VSO is an international development charity that works in over 30 of the world's poorest countries. They fund experienced professionals, like me, to live and work with communities to make lasting change to their quality of life. There are specific aims which are the focus of VSO, these are Education, HIV and AIDs, disability, secure lively hoods, governance and health- which is where I come in. I will be one of 2 doctors working alongside local clinical officers in a rural part of North Malawi called Rumphi in a hospital with about 200 beds providing health care to a catchment population of 250 000 as well as improving and providing medical education to enable continuation in standards of care deliverance. The money you will hopefully donate funds all aspects of mine and other volunteers' work from flights and living costs to language lessons and equipment provision. It enables volunteers to continue to be sent out to the poorest countries to share skills and change lives! So please please sponsor me as it really is a worthy cause and all your money will come into such good use. I will also announce other forthcoming events I have planned on this site too so please check it! Thank you all again Hooi-Ling xxx (If you want to know more about VSO please click on the links on this page) And a bit of blurb about Justgiving: Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It's also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Voluntary Service Overseas gets your money faster and, if you're a taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.