Quick Rundown
Ok quick rundown… the second day of the course went really well and was interesting. We were acting in senarios involving face-to-face and on the phone. One person had to be the supporter and the other, the supported. When I was the supporter on the phone I had to support someone who had money problems and thought his wife had lost her job as she was being secretive. When I was the supported, I had to act as a student who lost a friend in a terrorist bomb attack. As for face-to-face… I had to support someone who wanted to be a model but they were involved in a bad accident and left with loads of scars effecting their self confidence and lead to depression. When I was being supported, I had to act as an elderly lady who’s house had burnt down and she had lost all her possessions, and was especially upset about losing the money she had saved up. It was an interesting course.
I had the week off work last week… went to Barry Island on Monday with my dad and went to Weston Super Mare with my dad & Callum on Thursday.
On Saturday Callum and I went to London to an SF meetup and we both had SUCH a great time!! We met at Waterloo, sat by the embankment then headed to a pub where we just chatted and chillaxed. The meet was awesome and afterwards 6 of us had a sleepover and we were up until gone 4am. Callum and I boarded a train at 9am and we got back to Newport at 2:30pm. I felt sorry for Callum because he had to get another train back to Swindon.
I was going to take dad out for a meal for father’s day but the place we were going to go to stops serving food at 4pm so dad asked if we could have a takeaway instead. We both had a sirloin steak for £6.30 and it came with chips & salad. HUGE!!! Couldn’t eat half of it.
Back to work today, usual dramas! Am tired, but drinking coffee and eating bourbon biscuits so it’s ok.
ah Barry Island .. went there once, don’t remember that much about it apart from the fact that it was blowing a gale on the day, I do however remember that Barry town was an utter hellhole .. Glad the SF meeting went well, I expect I would have been too old for that!!
Barry was a bit crap, to be honest, not much there at all but the weather was lovely and we sat by the beach for most of the afternoon. Actually the highlight of the day was when a huge seagull landed on a table when a family was eating around it. They all screamed and I found it hilarious. I know, I’m cruel.