End of Something.

It's the last day of the holidays, the kids go back to school tomorrow. So today is a busy day! We (the volunteers have been given our new shifts for the foreseeable future, I've managed to score long week short week (LW/SW) in my usual house. YAY AT LAST! Although this does mean brutal 6am starts, but that's managable, and once I'm up it doesn't seem so bad. So there's a new mon-fri volunteer: a girl who arrived just before the holidays started so doesn't know any of the kids and because the other LW/SW volunteer who's usually in the house is on holiday, there is also a new volunteer on that shift who only arrived about a week ago! So today there are 3 of us working, usually the new LW/SW volunteer wouldn't be working today, but seeing as she doesn't know any of the kids she has to work today to meet them, then she's thrown in at the deep end tomorrow morning when she has to wake them all and get them ready for school! On the note of shift systems, the volunteer who arranges who works where when has deliberately put me and Sarah on the same shift so although we don't work in the same house, we work the same days, hours and have the same off days! I'm so happy! I wanted to ask if he could do that, but the unspoken rule here is that if you ask for something like to work with your friend, they'll put you on opposite shifts to make a point so I didn't.

As for who's in the house, it's the usual 13 we had before the holiday (I'm not sure if I ever mentioned, but in November a boy arrived from one of the satellite houses) plus another totally new girl that arrived last week. So we now have 7 girls and 7 boys. Or at least we will have by the end of today, they're still arriving back from their homes!