YPL service project
Jan. 13th, 2013 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sally_anneMy group visited a school where recent Hogwarts graduate Shivani Johns teaches.
She took over fairly recently, I think, and her predecessor was old and had some difficulty keeping up with the work. The whole school needed to be painted and also we patched a hole in the roof. Also, some places where the furniture hadn't been moved in about a century that needed a good cleaning -- we noticed those when we moved the furniture to paint.
It was good to feel really useful. We certainly appreciated Miss Johns coming in on her day off to work with us, and we hope that she finds the fresh paint and no-longer-leaking roof make it worthwhile!
I wonder if anyone wound up at the school I used to attend? The teacher when I went there was Miss Dixton. (She might have retired, however. I'm not sure.)
What sorts of work did the other groups find was needed?
She took over fairly recently, I think, and her predecessor was old and had some difficulty keeping up with the work. The whole school needed to be painted and also we patched a hole in the roof. Also, some places where the furniture hadn't been moved in about a century that needed a good cleaning -- we noticed those when we moved the furniture to paint.
It was good to feel really useful. We certainly appreciated Miss Johns coming in on her day off to work with us, and we hope that she finds the fresh paint and no-longer-leaking roof make it worthwhile!
I wonder if anyone wound up at the school I used to attend? The teacher when I went there was Miss Dixton. (She might have retired, however. I'm not sure.)
What sorts of work did the other groups find was needed?
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-01-14 03:14 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-01-14 04:59 am (UTC)But now that I think about it, a few of us had been talking Quidditch, just to pass the time, and I mentioned Dad had got a deal on my broom because one of the Cannons' players didn't want it any more.
She let us have a break not too long after that, and that's when she mentioned the tea.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-01-14 05:04 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-01-14 05:15 am (UTC)This is awkI sometimes forget that people think that way, that not having been in fostering makes me a little more pure or whatnot.It's still weird, though. I mean every once in a while someone will make a big fuss over me because of Dad's job specifically, but usually it's old-man Cannons fans who want to offer me a toffee as if I'm five and have a gab about how much the team means to them, not pinched old-lady schoolteachers. That's probably why I didn't twig to it right away.