Monday, January 19, 2004
The Shit Hitteth the Fanneth
My life has been on the high-stress side over the last week. Everyone in my house (3 of us) came back to Montreal after Christmas feeling like we want to go back to school next year. Thing is school=cash, volunteering=no cash. So we talked it over for a few million hours and decided to call it quits in April instead of August as originally planned. You wouldn't think this would be a problem, after all we are volunteers.
However, because of some major funding cuts, MVS no longer officially exists...which means the Montreal unit has no way of getting new people to replace us....this is the problem.
So we had a big meeting with the local committee to explain to them our situations (Jo and Julia wanting to go back to W'peg for the summer, me wanting to stay and work + volunteer at the same time). This did not go over well. Words were said, like mmm...disappointed, hurt, angry, 'losing face', hypocrites, quitters...the list goes on. By the time the (church!) committee chair was done having her say we were all in tears. This is not normal for me. Much stress and upset has ensued.
Right now I just hope to get private sponsors (aka church people and relatives) to allow me to continue my work here for at least part of the summer. We shall see.
My life has been on the high-stress side over the last week. Everyone in my house (3 of us) came back to Montreal after Christmas feeling like we want to go back to school next year. Thing is school=cash, volunteering=no cash. So we talked it over for a few million hours and decided to call it quits in April instead of August as originally planned. You wouldn't think this would be a problem, after all we are volunteers.
However, because of some major funding cuts, MVS no longer officially exists...which means the Montreal unit has no way of getting new people to replace us....this is the problem.
So we had a big meeting with the local committee to explain to them our situations (Jo and Julia wanting to go back to W'peg for the summer, me wanting to stay and work + volunteer at the same time). This did not go over well. Words were said, like mmm...disappointed, hurt, angry, 'losing face', hypocrites, quitters...the list goes on. By the time the (church!) committee chair was done having her say we were all in tears. This is not normal for me. Much stress and upset has ensued.
Right now I just hope to get private sponsors (aka church people and relatives) to allow me to continue my work here for at least part of the summer. We shall see.
