change of the plans
As you can tell, I am back to town a couple of days early. Essentially, things are a little different than I had thought they would be because when I got to Florida we figured out that I wasn't as set up for the program as they wanted me to be. So now I am back and I have a program to complete before I can return to Florida and do the training I had meant to do. And it sucks, but the program will be fun and rewarding so what can I say? I guess I'll just have to work on getting it done fast. I am estimating it will take at least a couple of months.
Maybe by the time I go back to Florida the worst of the hot weather will be over. I am afraid that it was just gearing up and I was pretty miserable because of the heat while I was there.
While I was there I had fun.
The church is in Clearwater Florida- The Hubbard College is in the same area as the main church. There are four main buildings- three of them are hotel/church buildings (because the Florida church is a religious retreat) and one of them is the student building where all the training occurs. They are all in walking distance (the longest is 4 blocks) but if you have to walk more than a block it gets pretty taxing (I swear I had to drink so much water!).
I lived in the "student motels", three motels purchased and renovated by the church for the specific purpose of housing the 500+ students. Mine was named the Clipper. It was right on an inlet of the sea with a dock and a sailboat named the Pelorus Jack. Named after a legendary dolphin that guided ships through the French Pass in New Zealand (no ships crashed in that treacherous space while he was doing his work). I lived in Clipper 15 with 5 other women. They were all older than me, spanning quite a range, but I liked them all and we got along well. Strangely enough, I had the bed that two other trainees from my home organization slept in while they were there for training... weird.
The schedule was as hard as I thought it would be, maybe harder, but fun in it's own right. I liked knowing exactly what to do at every moment of the day and when I had any free time I made phone calls of wrote letters and that was that. I did have time to listen to CDs when I got home to my room with 1/2 to spare as we had a cd player in there and we would jam sometimes.
All in all it was a good experience, the only bad part being the whole getting sent back thing and I look forward to when I can return. It felt like I was right at the fore of what was going on in my religion. Since the church in Florida is one of the management organizations, I always knew what was going to happen across the world before it actually happened. And we are preparing for some pretty big events this July and I know what's going to happen so it's rather exciting to have been there for that.
Now, I am here so I will get back in the groove of things and have fun with the time I have before I head out again. So, anyone want to hang out? I got the weddings coming up of course, but I'll be around so drop a ring on my phone eh?
Maybe by the time I go back to Florida the worst of the hot weather will be over. I am afraid that it was just gearing up and I was pretty miserable because of the heat while I was there.
While I was there I had fun.
The church is in Clearwater Florida- The Hubbard College is in the same area as the main church. There are four main buildings- three of them are hotel/church buildings (because the Florida church is a religious retreat) and one of them is the student building where all the training occurs. They are all in walking distance (the longest is 4 blocks) but if you have to walk more than a block it gets pretty taxing (I swear I had to drink so much water!).
I lived in the "student motels", three motels purchased and renovated by the church for the specific purpose of housing the 500+ students. Mine was named the Clipper. It was right on an inlet of the sea with a dock and a sailboat named the Pelorus Jack. Named after a legendary dolphin that guided ships through the French Pass in New Zealand (no ships crashed in that treacherous space while he was doing his work). I lived in Clipper 15 with 5 other women. They were all older than me, spanning quite a range, but I liked them all and we got along well. Strangely enough, I had the bed that two other trainees from my home organization slept in while they were there for training... weird.
The schedule was as hard as I thought it would be, maybe harder, but fun in it's own right. I liked knowing exactly what to do at every moment of the day and when I had any free time I made phone calls of wrote letters and that was that. I did have time to listen to CDs when I got home to my room with 1/2 to spare as we had a cd player in there and we would jam sometimes.
All in all it was a good experience, the only bad part being the whole getting sent back thing and I look forward to when I can return. It felt like I was right at the fore of what was going on in my religion. Since the church in Florida is one of the management organizations, I always knew what was going to happen across the world before it actually happened. And we are preparing for some pretty big events this July and I know what's going to happen so it's rather exciting to have been there for that.
Now, I am here so I will get back in the groove of things and have fun with the time I have before I head out again. So, anyone want to hang out? I got the weddings coming up of course, but I'll be around so drop a ring on my phone eh?