A whole new world
Well Cameroon is an era over and finished at least for the moment and after a lush time at home for Christmas and then seeing a few (being the operative word) darling people in Leicester over new year I am now into live in bustling Berlin (or something like that).
Not too sure if anyone still reads this, they probably might do if I bothered to update but anyway here is a bit about what I'm doing now and an invitation to leave messages/email me if anyone feels in anyway obliged/bothered...please don't feel either of those on my account!
I am 'working' alongside a lovely northern lass who studies at Cambridge but the amazing name of Alice...lovely chicken. And also with a couple by the name of Harvey who work with the youth of East Berlin and have done for the past 13 years. They are a delightfully eccentric couple, which of course you have to be to do this kind of work.
East Berlin for anyone that doesn't know/care about German history was a heavily Communist part of Germany and still is to some extent. The people are hostile to any 'good news' at all whether it is good or not and just keep their heads down, some doing it in a more subtle way than others! But otherwise, the youths are a brilliant bunch who are quite loveable yet slightly infuriating at times!
We meet three or possibly four times a week in various places, two flats, one where Alice and I live and the other where the Harveys live and a baptist church. These 'meetings' consist of us being there early to shop for bread salami and cheese amongst other nibbles and setting up, then staying there for the duration, sometimes a couple of hours, sometimes over night (not in the baptist church!). Just generally being there and loving them when (they think that) no-one else does.
A very demanding yet quite rewarding task at times. We are also beginning to go into a few gymnasium (high schools for the 'brighter' ones though not many of them show it as is the case in most schools across the world) and help in English classes, offering 'nachhilfe', kind of free tuition/conversation with those who want it.
So there you have my first fortnight and the coming months in a nutshell.
More updates will follow but can't guarantee the reliability! :)
Hope you are all well...bis bald
Tchuss
x x x x x
Not too sure if anyone still reads this, they probably might do if I bothered to update but anyway here is a bit about what I'm doing now and an invitation to leave messages/email me if anyone feels in anyway obliged/bothered...please don't feel either of those on my account!
I am 'working' alongside a lovely northern lass who studies at Cambridge but the amazing name of Alice...lovely chicken. And also with a couple by the name of Harvey who work with the youth of East Berlin and have done for the past 13 years. They are a delightfully eccentric couple, which of course you have to be to do this kind of work.
East Berlin for anyone that doesn't know/care about German history was a heavily Communist part of Germany and still is to some extent. The people are hostile to any 'good news' at all whether it is good or not and just keep their heads down, some doing it in a more subtle way than others! But otherwise, the youths are a brilliant bunch who are quite loveable yet slightly infuriating at times!
We meet three or possibly four times a week in various places, two flats, one where Alice and I live and the other where the Harveys live and a baptist church. These 'meetings' consist of us being there early to shop for bread salami and cheese amongst other nibbles and setting up, then staying there for the duration, sometimes a couple of hours, sometimes over night (not in the baptist church!). Just generally being there and loving them when (they think that) no-one else does.
A very demanding yet quite rewarding task at times. We are also beginning to go into a few gymnasium (high schools for the 'brighter' ones though not many of them show it as is the case in most schools across the world) and help in English classes, offering 'nachhilfe', kind of free tuition/conversation with those who want it.
So there you have my first fortnight and the coming months in a nutshell.
More updates will follow but can't guarantee the reliability! :)
Hope you are all well...bis bald
Tchuss
x x x x x
posted by Kat @ 1/21/2007 03:21:00 pm
1 Comments:
At 24/1/07 9:00 am,
Anonymous said…
Hey, my lovely Kat
It's great to know you already settle down in Berlin. You will have good tiime there.
Please do update news, I am your loyal reader. =D
love you heaps,
Mei Xxxxxxx
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