V.ac.a.t.i.o.n. has started!"

V.ac.a.t.i.o.n. has started!"

It's official now, my vacation has started. I'm looking forward to it, the first few days rest, rest and rest. It's been quit a hectic week, with free dinners, working, visitors, visiting. This morning at 7:15 I took of to my old job at Reha, the weather was horrible. There was a light rain (drizzle?) and it went on and on non stop, raincoat, rainpants, no umbrella cause of the wind. I got soked when I arrived, and the cantine was fully packed with some new people but aswell people I knew. I was excited but tired aswell, and the pain in the hips started this morning early again. I guess I have been to busy yesterday with all the back and forth cycling. I thought, 'Okay, one more day and then rest, let's have fun.' I took place on my favorite old seat and took a cuppa tea.

 It was nice seeing the people I knew again, Mark, Henkie, Margaret, Cyntia, ect, ect. I wasn't planning to do much this day, but in the end I was pretty exhausted. Cleaning, lots of cleaning, Henkie and I did a good job and worked hard. My pain in the hips bothered me so now and then, I told this aswell to Henkie. And he told me that he had the same, he said his working shoes causes him hip pain. That might be my problem aswell, I'm still wearing my 'supports' in my shoes. I will try to wear them as often I can. If the pain gets to worse then I will call my Doctor. Never walk to long with pain, right? Around 12:00 we were done, and I was done too. I wasn't feeling so well, I felt tired and with flashes dizzy, blame the hectic week I had behind me.

But I had fun at Reha aswell, I recorded a few videos, took a few pics, and danced and laughed with the radio on loud. At 12:30 the ordered food for the Christmas brunch came in, all the tables were all set up already this morning. We all gathered around, served our food and start to dig in. There was enough food for everyone. There were three kinds of mash pot as the English say, there was mash pot carrots, mash pot kale and mash pot sauerkrot. I took kale mash pot, it's really the season for kale, we don't eat kale every season in Holland. There was meat aswell, ribs, hamburgers and sausages. First I took one plate but later on I took half a plate more, I didn't want to eat that much, cause I might go to asecond Christmas brunch too at 5:00.

It was nice being together, there's quit a difference thought between the workers from Reha and the workers from Slettenhaar. The half of the workers from Reha have a dissability with working and the other half have problems aswell, homeless, been in jail, problems with getting a job, that's quit a bunch of mixure together. 

The grocery bag I recieved from Reha!

 The workers from Slettenhaar are almost the oppisite, quality workers with almost no dissability, 'normal'workers. Anyway, at 1:30 most of us were stuffed and were ready to go home, thestaff from Reha had a nice Christmas gift for us when we were about to leave. It's quit normal to recieve a Christmas gift from a employer in the end of the year a week before Christmas. 

We all recieved a large designed grocerie bag with some nice groceries, crackers, spaggethi, candy, juice, cookies, tea, ect,ect, it was pretty much, the bag was heavy. Wow, and every worker were getting a bag, I was suprised. I shook both Bosses a hand, it was so nice seeing them again. it's been a while since I saw them, cause I was at my other job. I really am thankfull for them, there done such a great job and they done so much for me, thumbs up! It rained lightly when I went home, I didn't mind cause I was going home anyway. I decided not to go to the other Christmas brunch cause I was full and tired, and my hips hurted again, rest is what I needed. And I took my rest, and that's what I will be doing the following days aswell, rest! 

So, how is it going?

I must say I'm okay, it's been quiet a year. But that's behind me now I would like to focus now on the upcommingyear, 2012. I'm excited about my journey to London, relieved aswell now it''s all settled. I nearly achieved what I wanted to achieve this year, like a job (I'm still keeping my fingers crossed) people around me to communicate and prolly build up new friends ships, I can find such things in vollunteers work or join a club or sport. I'm still working on that, but I want it this way that I can still overvieuw it. I don't want to grab everything all at once, I'm taking my time, cause I would like to keep aswell time for myself. So far I'm doing okay I guess, I still join the free dinners, where I meet and speak people, and then there's the three days of work where I work ofcource but communicate too

I would like to find something for in the weekends, cause in the week I need my rest too. Yesterday I had a phonecall from a vollunteer work agency, I signed in with them online, they will search for me vollunteer jobs. But still I'm keeping the overvieuw, the agency would like to have a meeting with me for a 'getting to know me' conversation. So yeah, vollunteers work agency plus the local radiostation, I'm doing okay, right? Keeping it easy, keeping the overvieuw. About Saf and the kids, sure I still think of them, but not so often as I did a year ago. The hurting is less too, still there is pain, or perhaps I should say wounds, they will stay I guess. That's fine, cause there will be a time where I can perfectly handle those wounds I guess. I don't want to forget my time while I was in Canada, cause that time should be a good memory, ans that's what I want.

2012, here I come!