Team Leader Becomes Team Member for 3 days

Hey Everyone!

So, towards the end of our second week fundraising, we had a surprise visit from our Commander, Mirjam! (Mirjam on phone: "Daniel, I'm coming to your team tonight." Daniel:" ...ok... Cool..." Mirjam: "Ok, see you later then!")

Mirjam came for three days, took over as team leader, giving me the opportunity to experience being a team member again and doing exactly the same things as the team for the time she was there.

Honestly speaking, at first it was a bit difficult as, having been a team leader since last June, i was used to always worrying about people, trying to get things worked out, etc, and suddenly i was allowed not to worry or think about anything else other than fr!

On top of this, we were fr in an area i had done the previous year and somewhat struggled with; but with all this i took it upon myself to restore my previous efforts and make it the best 3 days of fr ever.

For the first couple of days we were fr in the tiny German part of Belgium, with these small villages. German is easily my favorite fr language (even above english!) so it wasn't too difficult to really invest in to the people and give my all. when fr as a team leader, it can be difficult to really experience much because you're out for short runs at a time, but for those days i had 8 hours in which i could really get in to it, and i really loved it.

The third day we were back in the French part. French is (unfortunately) my least favorite fr language, and generally speaking, whenever i'v fr'd in French, i've never done well and struggled. However, i determined myself to make this day different, throwing off my old concepts and just went for it. It turned out to be a really pleasant day with lots of really great memories, and for me, evidence that investment is never lost, even if the world seems against you.

Admittedly, in the condition there were only 3 days in which i didn't fr, but the 3 where i did full time were some of my best days fr in the entirety of my time on stf!

Daniel

Me avec far too much hair!

Belgian FR week 1

Hi everyone,

This is a short article on our first fundraising week.

 The Buchbinder

So as you may know Pollitt's team was fundraising in Belgium. We were the only team there, which is pretty cool. I was personally quite sceptical about the idea to go in that country cause we, french people, do make a lot of fun about them. But actually it was alright, they are super friendly. I really like them.

During this days I learnt that Belgium cities are very, very, beautiful, we were completely amazed.

Our Resident Llamas

My first week was good, I tried to do well. I usually don't do all the hours which are given to me but that first week was successful. 

I don't especially have something to say about this week, I enjoyed it, blitzing nights were cool.

Thank for having reading it.

Taka

Making Our Easter Egg Boxes

We're Back!

Hey everyone!

Just to let you know, we're back in good ol' London for witnessing once again. From now on we'e going to try and keep a more up to date blog.... so wish us luck!

Over the next few days we're going to give you some updates about what we've been up to for the past 6/7 weeks, fundraising in Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Parents workshop.

Oh, and by the way, at the moment, Joy and Kosina are fundraising in Denmark and Germany, but they'll be joining us on Friday/Saturday.

In addition to all of this, our East London brother Julian has joined us for the remainder of our witnessing time! (Banner will be updated shortly!)

Take Care everyone!

Team London

Live Lounge 6

Friday 27^th of Feburary STF london (minus jason) took time from the usual activities, the whole witnessing and fundraising thing, to get involved in an open mic night called Live Lounge in Lancaster Gate.

So while Christine did some good ol' DP study, Daniel busted out on his clarinet and joy, taka and I (kosina) got some lyrics, a guitar and our vocals into action.

In the evening we suddenly started to have some doubts and to plan escape routes. Nonetheless, we couldn't back out and let the people down.

Daniel was one of the first people to hit the stage and performed with few hiccups and then lots of applause.

After this things took a nasty turn as soon as me, Joy and Taka got called up to do our piece. Taka was fine playing the guitar but I was shaking from the moment things started and was wandering how Joy was planning to read the lyrics i was holding. Joy held things up well though until the second verse when she apparently looked up and noticed there was a crowd of people around.. So she joined me in freaking out. Basically, our voices broke and we laughed a few times (nervous laughter) and we confused lyrics.. and it is all on film.

Well, that's all i can say really, so i will leave it at that! In the end it was good to make use of opportunities, get to know the london community some more as well as witness their talents.

Kosina.