Ok, so not getting a CRB check was slightly problematic, until Dee, the head of Interface Learning pointed out something rather obvious. It went a little like this.<\/p>\n
Dee: Wait, your an international student!<\/p>\n
Me: Yes.<\/p>\n
Dee: Well than you are an international woman and can come to the International Friendship Group anyways.<\/p>\n
Me: Ohhhh…<\/p>\n
So, we managed to sidestep that little inconvenience, which just meant that I won\u2019t be able to go into the cr\u00e8che, which is the children\u2019s playroom. Like that\u2019s a problem for me. It\u2019s really more of a gift, actually. The group gets together once a week, and while the mothers have an English class with a certified English teacher, the children are dropped off in the free childcare. The ladies cook a communal lunch, with everyone taking turns to \u201chost\u201d the meal. Since I couldn\u2019t help with the children I was sort of a gopher by bringing the dishes from storage to the kitchen, etc. It was a lot of fun, and while the younger volunteers I had met at the meeting were very friendly, these women were a lot more reserved and shy with me. It was rather obvious though that many of the women knew each other and spent time together outside of their weekly meeting.<\/p>\n
There were a couple teenagers who weren\u2019t in class and they most definitely did not need day care, so they spent the morning in the caf\u00e9 with myself, the other volunteers, and Dee. I was amazed by one young woman\u2019s embroidery. She was working on a pillow while waiting for her companion, and the thread that Dee had provided was the same as the kind that I used to make friendship bracelets in summer camp ages ago. When I mentioned that, I was greeted with blank looks from both other volunteers, Louise and Faith. So when I took some of the scraps and showed them what I meant I didn\u2019t realize that I would end up being the referee in their race to start and finish their own bracelets. Unfortunately class ended before a winner could be determined. A small sidenote, I once again had to cross the huge scary roundabout to get to the Children\u2019s Centre, but on the way back Faith taught me a shortcut! No more rotary! Now, I just have to figure out the shortcut in reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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