Arrived back from a quick trip to Peru yesterday evening. It was very interesting - I'll probably blog something about it later. The journey home was really long. I left the place where I was staying in Lima at 7am on Monday and arrived home at about 5.30pm on Tuesday. Where on earth did those 2 days go?
On the long flight I found myself sitting next to a young British woman, probably in her mid 20's. She was just returning from a 2 month trip to Brazil - turned out her family had Brazilian links. She was video editor - very bright, personable and chatty.
When I replied to her question, 'what do you do, then?' by telling her I was with The Salvation Army, her response was, 'I thought that had died out long ago. When I think of the Sally Army all I picture is women in bonnets and long Victorian skirts'.
Once I had told her something about us and what we are now she was really staggered. 'Why don't you advertise?- put something on the telly'.
She was obviously worldly-wise but knew nothing about us. Perhaps our advertising and PR departments need a wake up call.
Just one other thought - I spent 11 hours on this flight, mostly sleeping. We wouldn't go into a hotel and say, 'do you have any people only using half of their double bed - if so, I'll sleep in the other half'. It crossed my mind that it's an odd thing that we are happy to get on a plane and curl up to sleep next to someone we've never met before - even a pretty young woman. Still, life has it's sacrifices, eh?
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