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The Old Ratcliffan 2011 | Old Ratcliffan news great places like Hong Kong, China, Jordan Boon (05): “Since leaving Be Fitter, and I have several kettle bell Macau, Portugal, France, Ireland and university in 2010 with a BA in fitness classes around Leicester with Spain. I also played a few concerts Mathematics for Finance and different instructors teaching for me.” here and there in college bands. I Management with Fashion and am currently working as a trainée Business, I have been running a T-shirt manager at Tesco Express.” printing company (TheTShirtMan. co.uk). I also purchased a 27-foot Ed Thompson (98): “I’ve recently moved to Thames Ditton where I Dufour sailing yacht as a project to live with my wife, Vicky, and son, renovate over the weekends. I stayed in Portsmouth until January 2011, Oliver, who’s seventeen months old. I when I moved back to Leicestershire continue to work at Nokia, where I’ve for a while. I wanted to find someone been for just over three years, and have recently moved to a new role to run the business over the summer as Channel Manager for the UK and whilst I went sailing, with the Zack George (08) idea of getting the boat to Turkey. Ireland. I continue to follow rugby and Complications with the boat made cricket, but as a spectator rather than this impossible, but I did manage to Anthony Fung (89): “During the participant these days, although I still past few years, I have managed to manage to get the occasional game of retire for the summer. I have recently turn a hobby into a career. My first golf in.” taken on a new house in Southsea experience of scuba diving was back and am living back by the seaside. The business is doing well and all is at university. Now, being in Hong good.” Kong with the inviting and vibrant tropical waters of South East Asia such as the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia on my doorstep, I have taken the opportunity to dive as much as I can. I am now a scuba diving instructor and am lucky to be one of few people who really enjoy their work.” Ed Thompson (98) James Charnock (09): “For the Jordan Boon (05) past two years, I have been studying Natural Science at UCL. I am Tom Castell (03): “I am now in thoroughly enjoying my time at Australia working as an IT security university and am considering going consultant for an English company on to do postgraduate Medicine. I still play hockey whenever I can and called Sophos. I manage all the corporate business within Victoria and I’m a keen golfer, despite London not Tasmania. I live in Melbourne and am being the best location for this. I get a keen scuba diver - I am now working Anthony Fung (89) back to Ratcliffe whenever possible, towards becoming an instructor.” normally for Old Ratcliffian sporting Alex Pickles (09): “I’ve been at events and love meeting up with Leeds Metropolitan University for two everyone. For those who know me, I years now studying Contemporary Art still live in Las Vegas with my family Practices and am about to go into my and I visit the UK whenever possible, third year. I’ve been keeping myself although we shall be moving back to busy building my portfolio England late next year.” Sameer Pattni (99): “I qualified as a pharmacist in 2004, got married to Chandni in 2005 in Dubai and we now have a baby boy of fifteen months.” Tom Castell (03) Zack George (08): “After leaving Ratcliffe, I studied for a Personal Training qualification at Loughborough College. After that, I worked in the Nuffield Health Gym in Leicester as Alex Pickles (09) a spinning instructor and personal trainer. I then set up a personal with graphic design and website training studio at my house called design work. With a co-designer, I Fitness Box, where I train some of my have started to build a small freelance Sameer Pattni (99) clients. For the past year, I have been design business and we have already trading under my new company name, completed a number of successful projects. I have also started designing Register online at www.ratcliffanassociation.co.uk 25