Early visitors...
Everything was on schedule this morning, I had it all planned in my head. Cleaning and dusting before the 'visitors' arrive for the 'farewell party,' (read: last meeting) A guy will show up aswell between 8:00 am and 11:30 am, he's gonna check the water in the house. (Measuring?) That was fine aswell, It all fitted in my plan. The visitors will show up at 12:00, and all went fine, untill............. my counselor suddenly showed up around 10:00. I thought, "Wow, he's early," but I didn't say anything. He told me when he came in, "Maybe you needed some help or have some questions before the meeting." We sat down and spoke a little, I surely wasn't ready yet. I still needed a wash up and had to prepair the coffee, tea and waffles. But I still had time I thought. My counselor said, "You know the meeting starts at 10:30, right? "What," I said, "What, I thought it was 12:00! "No, 10:30, the others will be here in ten minutes."
A little panic started, I rushed over to the kitchen and prepaired the coffee, tea and the waffles, the waffles needed butter. Then on to my daily wash up, then the doorbell went, the guy for the water check up arrived. The guy came in and did his job, not even five seconds later the first visitor showed up, my counselor from Humanitas. I still had a butter knife in my hand with butter on it when I guided her in. I welcomed her and she sat down. I finnished the waffles and waited for the other visitors. (The daily wash up can wait, I thought, I'm pretty enough! LOL) My Boss from work showed up shortly after that, surprising that she came, it did me good. I served coffee, tea and the buttered waffles and the meeting started. The meeting was nice, first was the round of introducing. My Boss seemed pretty excited and was interested in everything what was going around me, the persons, what I have been trough, Canada, etc, etc.
That was nice to see, I didn't quit expect that. The whole meeting went good, it was nice to hear from everyone what I all have achieved and managed, it rained compliments. My Boss wanted to know what excactly happened after Canada, she quit knew my story but not everything. I explained it but stumbled a few times in my words, although it was a comfy meeting it was quit chaotic too sometimes. After my explaining I nearly shedded a tear, I went trough alot, and it's been a while since I told 'that' story. The meeting was a succes, they stayed for 90 minutes. I can be proud of myself for what I achieved. Though the last thing what still has to be achieved is social contacts, that's still a point that bothers me and my counselor. We talked about it in the meeting aswell, now there's a company/agency called 'Buddy wanted,' and my counselor will be signing me up for that.
'Buddy wanted' is a company/agency what helps you searching for social contacts, I have heard about it, but I have let it be. I though I could manage it it on my own, but I got a bit stuck with finding new social contacts or vollunteers work. It just is hard to find something, so a little help is always welcome, right? I will get a call for a intake after I am signed up, then someone will help me with finding those needed social contacts. It's all new for me aswell, so I can't explain much about 'buddy wanted.' All I know that it's almost the same as getting a counselor for a certain time, just like I had with my ol' counselor. Only 'this' counselor will help me with social contacts. I'm looking forward to it! I will be searching aswell, like I always did, but now I will get help with that, sounds good to me.
