My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 Oct Episode Four: Features Naomi Simson [There is much research done to find where to volunteer, I worked in five different organizations - not all of them become part of the television program. All of the places I visited and worked at impacted my experience, so are very much a part of my diary.] Today was my first real day in the field, getting on with the…
My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 Oct Episode Four: Features Naomi Simson Food clearly tastes better if you don’t have a lot of it. I have Green apple, Greek yogurt and hazel nuts for breakfast. I’m hungry and it tastes fantastic. The sun is shining and I’m ready to take on the day. I can’t help but think of all the things I would have done on a Monday morning. It is odd…
My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 Oct Episode Four: Features Naomi Simson It has been a long night. It is 7.21am. I woke at 5.03am. I can here the people next door – screaming at each other. ‘F’ this and ‘F’ that, pretty aggressive for so early on a Monday morning. Yesterday leaving home now seems along time ago. It was weird packing when you have no idea where you are going. it’s…
My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 Oct 2009 Episode Four: Features Naomi Simson I sit here in my bed in a motel on a GoldCoast highway which seems a million miles from home – I can hear the traffic and my neighbors. It’s not so bad, just different – I wake up the first morning away from my family to that feeling of ‘where am I’ and then the realization -’oh that’s right…
My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 October Episode Four Features Naomi Simson Some months ago I was given the opportunity to go on a ten day mystery experience. To be taken away from all the comforts I know, my family, business, credit cards and technology – to live on $20 a day and to volunteer in a number of charitable organizations in an unknown destination. I did not necessarily jump at the chance…
To give or not to give that is the question. Giving a gift is not always the right thing to do. In fact a bad gift can do more harm than good. A gift can either enhance a relationship or detract from it. In giving a gift it shows our intentions towards that person, it tells us something about our relationship with them – what we think of them, how important they are to us, the potential future relationship we…
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Secret Millionaire Chapter 6
My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 Oct. Episode Four: Features Naomi Simson [Not all of the places I visit become part of the television program - more than 40hours of footage reduced to an hour long program. I meet amazing volunteers every where I go - their stories touch, move and inspire me. My diary includes much that simply cannot be shown on air.] I go from the older citizens (Mission Possible) to…