Euro­pean adventures

-- March 7th, 2012 --
berlin blue

What a whirl­wind the last month has been.  I am sorry to have been so quiet, but it’s been a mad­house here.

This is eas­ily explained.  I’ve been so focused on get­ting myself a real life — as opposed to a life spent watch­ing Avery grow up, as sweet as that has been — that I didn’t com­pletely under­stand how the seeds of my ideas would sprout.  It all started with bell­ring­ing, of course, and being new Tower Sec­re­tary has been a lot of fun.  Part of my new job has been to set up a blog for us to report on our out­ings, spe­cial ser­vices, record­ings and par­ties.  It’s all a bla­tant attempt to keep our four teenage ringers inter­ested.  They bring so much laugh­ter and energy to the atmos­phere at Sat­ur­day practices!

Then there is my train­ing for social work with Home-Start, the social work vol­un­teer project.  Every Thurs­day finds me spend­ing all day in a rather bleak office build­ing in a nearby vil­lage, sit­ting in a cir­cle with about 15 other vol­un­teers, lis­ten­ing to hour after…

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