You know that feeling, after you’ve just run a marathon and
realise you can take a minute to breath? Yeah me neither, but I can imagine it
feels somewhat like this.
Though I really don’t have a good excuse for not writing in
so long, an excuse I do have. Originally, we had planned to spread our five
training sessions over three weeks. We had our first meeting on Monday, and
announced the schedule to our new Board members. Well, apparently the dates we
had planned for, particularly during the third week, simply did not work with
their schedules. After re-juggling and considering everyone’s weeks, the agreed
training sessions ended up looking like so: Monday, Wednesday Thursday, Tuesday,
Thursday. A little worrying, since Graham and I felt like we still had
mountains to climb in order to finish the plan for the second training, let
alone the third.
However, in hindsight, getting forced to figure it out with
considerable time pressure was the best learning experience I could have asked
for. Instead of procrastinating and waiting for other people to help me figure
it out, I was thrown in with Graham, given about forty eight hours to plan
seven hours’ worth of training material. Other than the rough work we had
prepped while determining which topics to cover on each day, we had little to
work with. It’s amazing what you can accomplish once you get pushed out of your
comfort zone.
Rest assured, all the sessions turned out to be very successful
– simultaneously the most relieving and rewarding feeling I have ever
experienced. Two sessions packed with auditing, budgeting, goal setting and
case work, all from scratch. There were
countless touching and eye-opening experiences. If and when the internet starts
working again, I will post about all of them.
Congratulations ~ can't wait to hear more about that! But tell Graham I'm not so excited about this 'challenge' as I do miss the more personal side of your stories! Do I dare hope for posts with both? All the pics and posts have been great and I'm so glad that you're both squeezing in the time for sharing. But know that I'm hoping to also hearing about your safari! ;-) xo
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