Time Table

This week was my first full week of work. I work in a Garnerville Prysbtern Church and in the welfare housing estate called Knocknagoney. It is a unionist (protestant) neighbourhood. Its an area where the kids and youth just don’t have a lot to do and not very many resource. I work in the community centre and in the primary school which is like elementary school. I will be helping the school join with a neighbouring catholic school in January to put on a play together as part of trying to integrate the kid from unionist and loyalist family’s. Below is my time table and of big things that will go all year and how they went this week. I do a lot of other things for the church as well and am busy most of the time.

Sunday:

church at 11:30 (I teach the P2-P3 Sunday school class. They are 5 and 6 years old. I had 3 kids in the class we share the same room as the preschool class. I share with another teacher we each take two weeks the brake for two weeks. I was told that I was not starting till next week but it turned out that the other teacher is on holiday (vacation) so I taught on Sunday last min. It was fine I am quick on my feet. The kids are so little they didn’t notices.)

Lunch so far I have been invited to lunch at a different family’s house every week

SN@G; which does mean making out but also means Sunday night at Garnerville. It’s the youth group. Last Sunday we had an opening welcome back BBQ where I was tricked in to mooing in a game called the moo game. They have about 5 volunteers who lead youth.

Mondays:

10:30-3 usually have a meeting in the City with the rest of the YAVs and Doug.

8:30pm bowling with some of the church members this is not really part of my job. But I like the people the have been meeting for 25 years and the bowling ally no longer charges them.

Tuesday:

9 to 12am Help with Childsplay it’s a free play group the church puts on for people in the community. Care giver and toddlers come and just play and chat and eat pancakes.

12-1 meeting with Peter he is my supervisor and the minster of Garnerville.

6:30-8:30 girls brigade I don’t even know really how to explain this. It like girl scouts but not at all. There are almost 30 girls who attended. I will be teaching dance with them.

Thursday:

2:30-5pm I work in an after schools club at the Knocknagoney community centre. My first big project helping kids make butterfly masks for the butterfly parade in Oct. I will also be teaching dance there

8:30 fellowship group, It a group of church members most of them are closers to my age and I don’t lead any thing I just participate.

Friday

9am school assembly at Knocknagoney Primary school about once a moth I help with the schools assemble. I give a small talk.

2-3pm every Friday I teach a dance class at the Primary school they told me that I would only get 6 or 7 kids on a Friday. Close to 30 showed up. I think it going to be my favourite time of the week but I am going to have to find a way to work with such a big number.

Saturday= DAY off (today I meet up with other YAVs at the Market in the City)