Hello everyone!
Sunday am:
I'm on reception duty this morning. It's without a doubt the most boring part of life as a Sangam Volunteer. Not always, but for the majority of the time. More so today than usual because Priya and Hayley are both off, and their office is a part of the reception area. So no company for me. It's also an annoying and boring job because unless one has loads of computer-based work to do, there isn't really anything to keep one occupied. I sent out a request for work this morning, and so have typed up simple washing machine instructions, edited and saved important board meeting agenda and accompanying documents, checked a session plan with Emily, and otherwise just tried to fill my time with things like writing in other peoples' compliment books (which live in the pigeon holes behind my desk), sorting out some old emails and making sure contact lists are up to date etc, and otherwise desperately trying to keep myself entertained.
Having done all this, I have ground to a halt, and still have another hour or so to sit here. Then it occurred to me that I might as well use this time to blog. The only problem with this idea being that my list of things to blog about is upstairs in my room, and all the interesting photographs that I was thinking I'd like to share with you are also upstairs on my computer. So perhaps this will be a haphazard blog of random thoughts, and I will follow it up tonight with all the things I've forgotten and some photographs. If you're lucky.
Yesterday marked the end of an era. Net and Ellen, the stalwart companions of mine and Jessica's first few events, have gone. Net left at 6am, and although I felt a bit tearful, I didn't really cry. I was quite proud of myself. Then Ellen left at 10pm (typical of them to stretch it out all day), and it hit me how much it was all changing....
That was as much blog as I managed to write at reception. Em came and gave me another mindless task to do, so I did that instead. I am determined to write you a nice long catch-up post (or maybe 2 or 3) now, because tomorrow the event starts. It runs for 12 days. Then we have one non-event day, which is Tare orientation. Then the next event starts. It runs for 12 days. Then we have 4 non-event days, and then the very important and scary Centre Team (a bit like the board) meeting begins. I'm telling you this now so that, if I don't manage to blog for the next 25 days, you are not surprised. It really is completely crazy how busy we're going to be, but hopefully it'll be fun too. And if it's not fun, then I have two awesome trips away in the planning as well...
I'm going to leave this as a little connecting blog, and get started on a new one to update you all on life here.
TTFN
Sunday am:
I'm on reception duty this morning. It's without a doubt the most boring part of life as a Sangam Volunteer. Not always, but for the majority of the time. More so today than usual because Priya and Hayley are both off, and their office is a part of the reception area. So no company for me. It's also an annoying and boring job because unless one has loads of computer-based work to do, there isn't really anything to keep one occupied. I sent out a request for work this morning, and so have typed up simple washing machine instructions, edited and saved important board meeting agenda and accompanying documents, checked a session plan with Emily, and otherwise just tried to fill my time with things like writing in other peoples' compliment books (which live in the pigeon holes behind my desk), sorting out some old emails and making sure contact lists are up to date etc, and otherwise desperately trying to keep myself entertained.
Having done all this, I have ground to a halt, and still have another hour or so to sit here. Then it occurred to me that I might as well use this time to blog. The only problem with this idea being that my list of things to blog about is upstairs in my room, and all the interesting photographs that I was thinking I'd like to share with you are also upstairs on my computer. So perhaps this will be a haphazard blog of random thoughts, and I will follow it up tonight with all the things I've forgotten and some photographs. If you're lucky.
Yesterday marked the end of an era. Net and Ellen, the stalwart companions of mine and Jessica's first few events, have gone. Net left at 6am, and although I felt a bit tearful, I didn't really cry. I was quite proud of myself. Then Ellen left at 10pm (typical of them to stretch it out all day), and it hit me how much it was all changing....
That was as much blog as I managed to write at reception. Em came and gave me another mindless task to do, so I did that instead. I am determined to write you a nice long catch-up post (or maybe 2 or 3) now, because tomorrow the event starts. It runs for 12 days. Then we have one non-event day, which is Tare orientation. Then the next event starts. It runs for 12 days. Then we have 4 non-event days, and then the very important and scary Centre Team (a bit like the board) meeting begins. I'm telling you this now so that, if I don't manage to blog for the next 25 days, you are not surprised. It really is completely crazy how busy we're going to be, but hopefully it'll be fun too. And if it's not fun, then I have two awesome trips away in the planning as well...
I'm going to leave this as a little connecting blog, and get started on a new one to update you all on life here.
TTFN
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