First week in the SWEAT house
OK, so, the first blog post I have ever done. Here goes; this week has had its relaxing and busy days AND what lovely weather we’ve had this week. Everyone has all had their own highlight with this week and whatever highlight comes up, we agree with every one of them. The Girls went shopping for the first time since we’ve been back and the house is spick ‘n’ span! Thursday was filled with toned-down P.T. followed by piggy-back team racing, along with a short notice Chinese night. When dressing up for Chinese night everyone had their own wacky and creative costumes. The...
Read MoreTruth, Freedom and a Western Banquet
Hello blog readers! The last blog telling you the tough times of LTS -well it ended in a lot of fun! We did the traditional end of LTS banquet with a Western theme (not at all influenced by Ben). All eight students were split into three teams; either cooking, decor or entertainment. Each team had a leader, further opportunity to test our leadership skills and (probably harder) our submission skills!. Alex was our head chief despite also being cooking team leading for the week – many early hours for him in the days leading up to the event. He was helped by his able team of Mark and Trav....
Read More~Under the sea~
The Sweaties have a reputation for creativity and fun and they didn’t disappoint as they kicked off the year with an under the sea themed dinner. Each member of the house dressed up in a costume to represent the theme; from a confused mermaid to a symbolic wave consisting of a blue bed sheet. You could clearly see that a lot of thought had been put into the costumes, with all sorts of household objects being used to accessorize them such as fishy bath mats and shells from the garden. Moving on to the dinner itself, we were treated to a lovely tuna pasta bake for our main course made...
Read MoreInternational Food Evening…
…And Cooking Team So the first Term has started and that means that there are 16 hungry mouths to feed! The first leader of the cooking team was Mr Jamie Doggett and his assistant Sammy, they kicked us off to a flying start providing quality cuisine and plenty of it. The cooking teams have been working really hard to provide for our new SWEAT family putting in a lot of time so that our tummies and taste buds are satisfied. I have found the biggest challenge when leading the cooking team is making sure that all the food we need as a family is within our weekly budget! I have already...
Read MoreSWEAT expansion
During the summer SWEAT purchased its second property for the training centre. The other half of the semi detached house was purchased and the joining dinning room wall was knocked through this month (October 2010). This now means that SWEAT is based at 31 and 33 Billacombe Road and this year is housing 17 people, so as you can see from the picture meal times has a great atmosphere.
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South West Equipping and Training (SWEAT) is a Christian run leadership training school based in Plymouth. With a focus on character development we offer a one year accredited course for people over 18 who want to further develop their leadership skills. Our heart is to bring people to the South West to train and for them to return to their places of work, churches and families as strong leaders with solid characters.