lunedì 29 marzo 2010

Something brand new

Things change. It's a matter of fact. It seems to me, though, that sometimes in life things change too much too quickly. Not all changes are for the worse, it's true, but it's hard to see the light when all around it's pretty dark. No, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, it's not so negative, but it is hard, nonetheless.
Here is what happened to me, I decided to share it with the world, to see if I can get any suggestion or simpathy :) I'm going to start from the very beginning, it's free, I can wirte as much as I want, right? :))
I started volunteering in this Church in 1998 and since then I've done all that I could to make that Church family oriented, a place where children felt not only safe, but also very welcome. And it was working! Together with the Church I also opened a little Playgroup for children from 0 to 3 years, the first year it was only open once a week, then it started growing and not it's an every morning thing. At first, everyone in the Church was happy about it, then slowly things began to change and they were trying to find reasons for us to go, till one day they asked us to go. We asked why and they told us it was because we were not a proper school and we didn't have insurance. So we did all we could, spending a lot of money. We did what we also wanted to do, we got insurance, we got a degree to be teachers -all the while working hard- and we became the closest thing we could to a school.
In 2009 we thought that it was about time we opened a real school, with things for older children as well. November came and so did the new rector of the Church. I spoke to him and he said that he loved what we were doing, he said if we needed any money he would have tried to find it for us, he said he was really supportive of our group. What would you have done?? It was safe, and we decided to stay