Breathe Deeply.
I must keep this speedy, since I only have a short while before my computer dies, and until I crash too because I am exhausted. My eyes are twitching at me. I left you off on Friday evening, well Saturday we got up early to volunteer at a Christmas Party, at Ste. Pats community centre. It was breakfast with Santa Claus. St. Pats is one of the work partners, and they have a daycare, and they had a party for the kids. It was a lot of fun, we played with the kids, gave out balloons, and got lots of pictures with Santa Ha ha. We also ate a lot of food, and they sent us home with more food. When we go to community events people always send us home with so much thinking we are in need. It's really funny, anyway food is good. That night I believe we did some workshops regarding contracts and behavioral standard refreshers since we are starting a new rotation. The whole weekend after that was just planning, and organizing things. Sunday I woke up to a huge delivery from costco, of breads of all kinds. I was like oh my god, more donated food to us. Apparently St. Pats gets food donated for the daycare, and what they can't use gets sent to us, well our kitchen was full.. it honestly looked like we ordered tons of food to start up our own business. Well after debating we were like, this is taking away from our katima ways, to not bake our own bread and such, and we don't believe in waste. So since we are so charitable we went around to the neighbors, giving it away. And yes, to answer your questions in advance, people thought we were crazy. They were like What? A few closed doors, and also offers to give us money, man we could start a business. Although of course, we just gave it away with a smile, saying "See you next week" Apparently, these orders come in once a week to us. SO I plan to get a hold of some local soup kitchens so we can give all the food to an organization which is in more need, compared to our katima house.
Monday brought a rainy day, and also our first day at work which was really nerve racking for me. Because me and a map doesn't go hand in hand. And my work place is a fair ways away. We were super lucky to have our PL wake up and realize it was raining out, and decide to be generous and drive us to work, thats when I began to calm down, because me actually getting to work on my own by foot, felt impossible. It turned out it wasn't that confusing to get to work, and I walked home perfectly fine. My first day was not busy because no adults come in on Mondays, instead I will be working in the food bank as I have mentioned. Tuesday, I realized Six AM mornings aren't my thing, while the rest of my hometown is sleeping because it would be only 4 AM there. That makes me mad! But hello, I am how far away from home, to make that make more sense, I have to leave at 7:45 AM, to walk to work for 8:30 AM. And then I walked 45 minutes home again after work. The bus system really sucks here, when I decide to start taking the bus, and when "Winter gets here" apparently winter hasn't came here yet, so the people of Moncton say. I must ask, when is Winter coming? It's already December. I think it's so funny, but it did snow a little bit today, so there is a start. Also they ask, how can you walk so long, in this weather. It honestly feels like October, good thing Im from Manitoba and know Winter's best. I feel like I can take on any winter, coming from the worst winter place ever, Manitoba.
Well now that I have complained, and ranted. I'll let you know about all the good things at my work. I work with such happy people which come to the adult day program everyday. They have breakfast when they get there, we do activities like cards, and crafts, and watch movies. They go to the gym for half hour then they have lunch, after lunch we go swimming, and then play more games before they get picked up. It's really cool to have a leadership role in planning and running the day program, since it is ran by volunteers, and a supervisor who is usually in the office. A new guy started yesterday and all he does is laugh, and it makes my whole day. However, everyone who comes in is very special and I would take forever explaining why I feel that way. The best way to explain it, is it is inspiring going in everyday, and helping these people out and being a difference in their life everyday. That all makes up for the 2 hours of walking a day I face (What I just ranted about)
This week we have done more planning in the evenings, getting committees together, and activities planned. We are having some problems, with our PL, and group problems. So I am a bit frazzled, and as I like to say a "mixed tape" it's really difficult for me right now, and I wish I could get more in depth about that, however it is too personal. I questioned coming home today, then I realized I have built a life away from home in the meantime, and I can get through all this conflict, it is part of the program.
Tomorrow is Friday, I never thought Friday would come. This has been the longest and most difficult week so far in the program for me. Tomorrow we begin our collective project at the YMCA youth night. We will spend every Friday that we can there. Organizing activities, and programs for these youth between the ages of 12-17. These kids need to be more entertained. This will be a project which would be sustainable as well, because we could get people to take over when we leave. I am thinking like do workshops, we have the gym available, and a multi purpose room. At this point we have a blank canvass to paint on when it comes to our ideas for our collective project. Like I just mentioned it would be sustainable, every katima group in their second language has to do a project that will help the community, and it will be our legacy that we have left behind. It will be exciting when it all falls in to place, as of now I am just really overwhelmed.
Things to look forward to: PEI trip- after I face the horrid excursion papers again for first weekened of january. Also Katima cousins visiting us for New Years, 48 hours off spending it with my mom and sisters here in Moncton, Billeting after which will be nice. That all happens in January. I will have more to talk about when I am more inspired. Right now, as I said- I am a mixed tape.
Peace
Monday brought a rainy day, and also our first day at work which was really nerve racking for me. Because me and a map doesn't go hand in hand. And my work place is a fair ways away. We were super lucky to have our PL wake up and realize it was raining out, and decide to be generous and drive us to work, thats when I began to calm down, because me actually getting to work on my own by foot, felt impossible. It turned out it wasn't that confusing to get to work, and I walked home perfectly fine. My first day was not busy because no adults come in on Mondays, instead I will be working in the food bank as I have mentioned. Tuesday, I realized Six AM mornings aren't my thing, while the rest of my hometown is sleeping because it would be only 4 AM there. That makes me mad! But hello, I am how far away from home, to make that make more sense, I have to leave at 7:45 AM, to walk to work for 8:30 AM. And then I walked 45 minutes home again after work. The bus system really sucks here, when I decide to start taking the bus, and when "Winter gets here" apparently winter hasn't came here yet, so the people of Moncton say. I must ask, when is Winter coming? It's already December. I think it's so funny, but it did snow a little bit today, so there is a start. Also they ask, how can you walk so long, in this weather. It honestly feels like October, good thing Im from Manitoba and know Winter's best. I feel like I can take on any winter, coming from the worst winter place ever, Manitoba.
Well now that I have complained, and ranted. I'll let you know about all the good things at my work. I work with such happy people which come to the adult day program everyday. They have breakfast when they get there, we do activities like cards, and crafts, and watch movies. They go to the gym for half hour then they have lunch, after lunch we go swimming, and then play more games before they get picked up. It's really cool to have a leadership role in planning and running the day program, since it is ran by volunteers, and a supervisor who is usually in the office. A new guy started yesterday and all he does is laugh, and it makes my whole day. However, everyone who comes in is very special and I would take forever explaining why I feel that way. The best way to explain it, is it is inspiring going in everyday, and helping these people out and being a difference in their life everyday. That all makes up for the 2 hours of walking a day I face (What I just ranted about)
This week we have done more planning in the evenings, getting committees together, and activities planned. We are having some problems, with our PL, and group problems. So I am a bit frazzled, and as I like to say a "mixed tape" it's really difficult for me right now, and I wish I could get more in depth about that, however it is too personal. I questioned coming home today, then I realized I have built a life away from home in the meantime, and I can get through all this conflict, it is part of the program.
Tomorrow is Friday, I never thought Friday would come. This has been the longest and most difficult week so far in the program for me. Tomorrow we begin our collective project at the YMCA youth night. We will spend every Friday that we can there. Organizing activities, and programs for these youth between the ages of 12-17. These kids need to be more entertained. This will be a project which would be sustainable as well, because we could get people to take over when we leave. I am thinking like do workshops, we have the gym available, and a multi purpose room. At this point we have a blank canvass to paint on when it comes to our ideas for our collective project. Like I just mentioned it would be sustainable, every katima group in their second language has to do a project that will help the community, and it will be our legacy that we have left behind. It will be exciting when it all falls in to place, as of now I am just really overwhelmed.
Things to look forward to: PEI trip- after I face the horrid excursion papers again for first weekened of january. Also Katima cousins visiting us for New Years, 48 hours off spending it with my mom and sisters here in Moncton, Billeting after which will be nice. That all happens in January. I will have more to talk about when I am more inspired. Right now, as I said- I am a mixed tape.
Peace
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