Holiday Season Greetings!!

Happy Late Thanksgiving to everyone who is reading this! I hope everyone had an amazing day yesterday and ate themselves sick. I am so thankful for my family for getting me to do this program and so wish I could have spent the day with them yesterday! Thank you for your constant support, I couldn't have done this with out you! Life in Camphill is very busy at the moment. The holiday season brings a lot of festivals, birthdays and holidays. I was lucky enough to get to celebrate and teach everyone here about Thanksgiving. They were very enthusiastic about doing it "how the Americans do it". Had an amazing table of 19 people complete with the works and 5 pies. Amazing work done by so many willing people. Complete at the end with speaking about what we are thankful for and singing songs together. Really delightful evening! The other major events that are going on right now that is putting a bit of stress on everyone is the craft fair that Camphill Dingle does every year for fundraising. So all workshops are in full swing producing as much product as possible. Not to mention we are also setting it up like a Christmas market so there's a bake sale, and refreshments. So there's been quite a bit of baking going on, and in my house we have several really good bakers so it constantly smells like Christmas in my house. We also have a huge Christmas raffle going on which we are constantly shoving raffle tickets in peoples faces. The only other big thing coming up is the ever popular Christmas play that is quite big and involves everyone, so that will take up quite a bit of our time in the coming weeks. But it is very funny and will be a grand time. I was cast as the star singer that has to introduce everyone and bless everything with my assistant Stephen, which will be totally fun since we get to wear fun hats. But it's been years since I've done theatre so I'm really excited about it and think it will be a great time. I will leave you all with a story that happened today. I decided to conquer the huge mountain that is behind my house as it was beautiful out and I needed to clear my head. As I walked up the road the very annoying unappreciated puppy from the neighbors jumped on me and decided to come on my walk with me....I should mention that in Ireland there are dogs roaming everywhere, so this is not uncommon. This puppy is adorable but very hyper, so I thought a walk might do him some good. So we trudged on up the very muddy road to the fence to the sheep pasture. In Ireland it is also totally fine to trespass onto peoples pastures, so climbing over random fences is pretty standard for hikes in this area. We kept heading up, and I decided to take a break and enjoy the view which was breathtaking. Just as I was heading into the other pasture the sky turned dangerously dark, I should also mention that the clouds and light here are unlike anything I've ever seen and in the pictures you will see what I mean. Anyway, it starting raining on me as I was on the side of this mountain and then turned to full on hail stones. It was actually totally awesome to be caught up in it, but all I could hear was this poor sheep farm yelling at his dog, and felt bad for him to be also getting pelted by hail. I decided that was the end of my little adventure since I was now soaking wet. It was a really fun adventure. I am missing cold, it doesn't really get that cold here, so it's just a lot of rain! I'm going to try and be better at my posting!!!