Saturday, March 9, 2013

Spring, where art thou?

Spring, where art thou? 

Got a a mail today from Humanitas, remember the 'new' volunteer job I received a week ago? This volunteer job is a job where I will be visiting people who have little social contacts, people who would like to do something  but are not able to do such. These people are mostly elderly people, but aswell people who are handicapped or such. I will visit them, they can fill in their own needs of what they would like to do, that can be anything. A walk, a bicycle ride, a chat or just a coffee, etc, etc. I will be doing the visits with a group of other volunteers, everyone has their own visitor. It's now that we go to the person with the whole group, lol. 
This group of people are all 'new' volunteers and aswell 'new' to these visits, just like me. In the mail I received was announced that the 'new' group (including me, ofcource) will get a few introduction lessons first before the visits begin. 

Next Friday will be the first introduction lesson, the day after (Saturday) will be the second. The introduction lessons will learn us how to get along with people, how to behave, or how to act or how not to act. The introduction lessons will be long and will be held in another city. Friday's first lesson will be held from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm. Saturday we will start at 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, nice! There will be coffee, lunch and ofcource the new volunteers. I'm not even nervous, more excited to meet the new volunteers. Although the Friday eve' will be a bit 'hmm,' I don't like it to be out on the street that late in the evening. I will have to go by train, and bus. All in all it will take me a little hour, though I will try to get a ride with someone, I already contacted the leading lady from this project. To see if she someone knows who can give me a ride. Waiting for a answer.

Dad with his parents and his Mom and Dad, yeah big Family. My Dad is in the middle, with the tie. Now I know where I have my ears from, lol.
 I just don't like to be out in the streets at midnight, lol. When I'm with someone, it's okay. Today I saw my Aunt and Uncle again, together we went to my Mom and Dad's new grave. The weather was terrible, rain and a hard cold wind. I went by train and bus, once I arrived in Nijverdal my Aunt and Uncle picked me up, from there we went straight to the new grave. The grave looks nice, plain, just like the other graves, but nice. Mostly all graves there have the same grave stones and tombs, or how you call them, all nicely in one line. The new grave stone looks the same as it was, but has only a different text. My Aunt had a bucket with plants with her what she bought and putted it on the grave, we decided to put not to many plants on the grave cause of the bad weather they forspelled week. It will be better toget a few more plants with Spring. 

After the grave I went with my Aunt and Uncle for a cuppa coffee, just what I needed, darn cold weather. It was a nice morning, Aunt and Uncle were nice, I guess I just have to be firm with them and at the same time nice. In a way I kinda need them aswell, they remind me of my Dad so much, every time I see them I see my Dad aswell, or think of my Dad. Not that strange cause they took care of my Dad aswell, my uncle is my Dad's youngest brother. My Dad has more brothers and sisters, as you can see on the picture. My Uncle brought me to the centre of Nijverdal, I told him that I still needed a few groceries, so he dropped me of there. All in all it was a nice out, nice to see Dad's old town again aswell. Though it feels sometimes awkward entering this village, cause I always feel I'm going to visit Dad. In a way I still do, right?