Quest Overseas - Gap Year Travel

Job title:  Managing Director

Favorite line from a film:  “She turned me into a newt …. well I got better!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail

How do you deal with stress:  I watch Brighton play football, it helps to remind me there are always people worse off than me…

Your favorite place:  Home in Devon, it never changes!

Your best day at quest so far?  Taking part in a fashion show at our shanty town project in Lima, Peru. I was in the beachwear section – string vest, hanky on my head and a rubber ring round my waist!

Job Title: Marketing Manager/Expedition Leader

Favorite line from a film:  Mickey to Rocky in Rocky,  You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!

What’s your favorite place?  Villa Maria.  I miss the kids, the fun and even Alejandro and the boys.  I also think that Patagonia is spot on.

Last book you read:  The God Delusion.  It made me feel incredibly unintelligent but I looked clever whilst reading it.

Your heroes include:  Sir Ranolph Fines, Marvin Gaye,  Zola before he joined West Ham, Matt Oakley.

Job title: Operations Assistant

How do you deal with stress: A combination of writing lists on post-it notes and Ben & Jerry’s chocolate fudge brownie ice cream.

Your favorite place: Far too many to choose between but Chugchilan in Ecuador, Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Kathmandu, the Isle of Skye (rock on geography field trips).

Last book you read: The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Job title:  Country Director, Bolivia

Favorite line from a film? What is this a school for ants?

How do you deal with stress? Make list, if that fails PANIC

What is your favorite place? Parquemachia, Bolivia

Last book you read? House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Your heroes include? Danny Vaz

What's been your best day at quest so far? The day I successfully held up an international airport for 2 hours for the sake of my Quest students.

Job title:  Bolivia Project Leader

How do you deal with stress:  If I'm in Bolivia I'll take a monkey for a long walk on the beach - anywhere else I'll tend to just shout at my husband!

Your favorite place?  Richmond Park

Last book you read:  'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts

Your heroes include:  David Attenborough and Danny Vaz

Best day at quest so far:  The day I met my husband! ahhhh...

Last journey you took?  Home to visit my parents in Germany (and go to the Oktober Fest)

Job title: Africa Ops Assistant & Quest4Change Fundraiser

Recent exploits: Completing an MA in Education & Development (and managing to gain a Distinction); heading over the Atlantic for the first time in my life to Canada; moving to Brighton

Favorite line from a film:  "Don't forget, Robin, that drinkers are human beings too" (original Batman film)

How do you deal with stress:  Denial, denial, denial

Proudest moment at work:  Finishing the structure of the Pensulo maternity clinic

Who makes you laugh?  My old flatmates - "There's a difference between playful cutlery-waving and burning threats."

Job title: Andean Expedition Leader

How do you deal with stress? I walk big cats on a leash, to calm myself.

Your favorite place? Lost in the Amazon

Last book you read? Where the Wild Things Were, a synopsis on a world of vanishing mega predators

Your heroes include: Isabelle Eberhardt - the demi god of independent exploration, Jaguarupi Rupi (two rescued jaguars in the Bolivia animal sanctuaries), my brothers Ted and Will

Best day at quest so far? Any day that we wake up outside, or fall asleep under the stars.

Job title: South America Project Leader

Favorite line from a film: "Either get busy living, or get busy dying", The Shawshank Redemption

How do you deal with stress? Smile insanely and think back to my happy place

Your favorite place? Lost out in the Bolivian jungle with my favourite animals

Last book you read? Eleven Minutes by Paulo Cohelo

Your heroes include: The long-term volunteers of Inti Wara Yassi who just keep dedicating their time to this special project.

Livingstone Tanzania Trust - one of our project partners

Favorite line from a film:  “Do you expect me to talk?”

“No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!"

How do you deal with stress?  Drink or go and talk to my nephews (3 and 5, they don’t allow you to focus on anything but them!!)

What was the last book you read?  Small Wars Permitting by Christina Lamb

Your heroes include:  Famous ones are Nelson Mandela. Steve Biko, Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Aung San Suu Kyi, Dalai Lama...

Job Title:  Project manager for Joshua Orphan Care Trust

What is your favourite Film?  Last King of Scotland

Your favourite place?  Anywhere there are friendly people

Do you have any heroes?  Nelson Mandela

What was your best day working with Quest?  Anytime when the volunteers and community come together and dance while on the projects in Malawi.

Who makes you laugh?  JJ, Redson’s dog

Last journey you took?  Train from London to Quest Office in Brighton.

Job title: Project Leader and African Expedition Leader

Favourite line from a film:  David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think  that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object. (Spinal Tap)

How do you deal with stress:  I make sure somebody else understands the gravity of the situation then let them worry about it.

Your favourite place:  It's varies year on year but most recently it was in the Brecon Beacons, lounging in heather, as my tent and sleeping bag

Job Title: Technical support and Feng Shui Consultant

Favorite line from a film:  "Me, your Highness? On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells. "
Reply to Prince Feisal by Claude Rains in Lawrence of Arabia 

or

" informatica soccorso?  - nessuno m' a detto me" from cult Italian film "Dove Fillipo e andate Adesso" -  direttore  Simone Tiernini

 Favourite Line

 " He was a thinker, a dreamer - a speculative philosopher - or, as his wife would have it,  - an idiot"

How do you deal with stress:  walk 

Your favorite place:  about half way up an alp

Job title:  bloke who wandered past the office last Thursday

Favourite line from a film: "He was a good man."

How do you deal with stress:  Go for a run, or find a dog to play with.

Your favorite place:  Somerset (of course), or Nckwichi Lodge, Lake Malawi

Your best day at quest so far?  Swimming with the pumas, or dawn above Cusco after the final night party...

Who makes you laugh?  Simon (not Matt Brimble)

Last journey you took:  To Northumberland and back...

Proudest moment at work:  Ask me again in a few months!

Your heroes include: Jim Clements (not Matt Brimble)

Job title: Project Leader and African Expedition Leader

Favourite line from a film: "I ate a big red candle" (Brick Tamland - Anchorman)

How do you deal with stress: I love to go running through random places, whether I'm in Africa, China or back in the UK. I always find it helps me wind-down.

Your favourite place: Mayoka Village, Nkhata Bay on Lake Malawi. Probably the most relaxing place I have ever been to. It looks out over onto an amazing view of Lake Malawi, and as a bonus you can play the inmates of the local prison at football!

Job title: depends on what job am doing! 

Favorite line from a film: " God tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're f@#$%^d " Braveheart

How do you deal with stress: Blaring music! usually Westlife or any thing by Boyzone they rock! 

Your favorite place: Lake Tangyanika .

Your best day at quest so far? Waking Simon at silly O'clock to get some money sanctioned on the exped!