September 30, 2003
Today we leave for residential. I don't think I've mentioned this before, but this is like a holiday for a group of families. We take eight mummies and twenty-two children to a place in the country for a three day holiday. There are six child care workers for the twenty-two kids. We will be working twenty-four/seven from Tuesday morning until Friday morning. We will get back Friday afternoon. They tell us we will be super duper tired, and that it will be an amazing amount of work and that we are there for the children and thus might not be able to care for ourselves in the form of sleep, proper meals, or breaks, but that it will be a great experience.
I'm sure we will bond with the children in a way that we haven't yet in our weekly or bi-weekly meetings with them, so it will be a positive thing for that aspect of the work. Whether or not I can handle not taking care of myself for three to four days is another story altogether. I'm planning on writing about it when we get back, so there won't be entries for the next few days. See you on Friday!
Lots of love,
Sabrina :-)
I'm sure we will bond with the children in a way that we haven't yet in our weekly or bi-weekly meetings with them, so it will be a positive thing for that aspect of the work. Whether or not I can handle not taking care of myself for three to four days is another story altogether. I'm planning on writing about it when we get back, so there won't be entries for the next few days. See you on Friday!
Lots of love,
Sabrina :-)
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