a new adventure

I'm sitting in the office and we've just been handed the new assembly. We've read through it and now every one of us is sitting with our new assignement. Except me, then. My job, normally is to work with the music and soundtracks for the assemblies, but I see my self finding it hard to work as usual. Off course this has a reason. Sam was here. Yesterday, actually, and tomorrow I'll be following his example and move up to Shropshire (an other part of England, close to Wales) for a while. Just a few days, but more or less he took a lot of equipment and things with him. So now I'm sitting at Lea's PC instead of my dear, dear miniMac. He took the keyboard, the interface, computer, wires, microphones, everything! So I find it a bit hard to work on music right now.

Alright. I'm going up to Shropshire to do three things, I think. First of all, I'm doing two assemblies in two completely new schools for us, they've never had an assembly from us before, so it has to be awsome. Secondly, I'll work with Sam on new things and a lot of music-related stuff. And third and finally, I think I'm going to babysit a bit. Which I don't mind cause it's lovely kids the Frankel juniors. Sam just called, the mission now is to find a cable, so over and out.

Hear ya!

some thought

So! Three assemblies done and another one tomorrow, the last one before going on TFG's "BIG" conference. For you who don't know what that is, it's a big, evidently, conference with all the TFG volunteers in the UK. We're going to meet people from all around the world, and everybody in the same situation. We've all committed to do one year in service, and I can say that you can have a lot of fun doing this.

Other news is that I might go up north for with Sam for a while, so I'm teaching Lea how to use the sound equipment and then I thought, I need to not forget that even though things seems easy to me, it's not always like that for others.

I watched a program on Internet in Swedish the other day, and it was about these three girls and a famous female comedian plays God. Two of the girls fought because they thought that the other one had a better life. So "God" put them in each other's body and they had to live the other's life. The point was that you shouldn't think that you know everything about an other person, and when they switched they realized that the other one's life wasn't that great all the time. They got insight of the other's life!

I been thinking about this a lot since I saw it. I don't want to forget that there is so many elements in a persons life that makes the person. There's culture, traumas, happy parts, different ways of growing up, studies, work, friends... All these things make an impact on our lives. Don't forget that we have had different lives, but if we try to understand the past, or why a person behave like it does, it can make a nice future.

Peace

New year, new year and new assembly

We started working yesterday and worked until about 7. Felt really pumped with energy after the break and my mood was amazingly good. I had the feeling of that everything annoying in my life were going to be different. So when Sam gave me a new challenge I absolutely didn't see it as something tricky, I felt really excited with this new adventure.

One of the worn out quotes I herd somewhere along the preparation for my volunteer year was: It's not bad, it's different.

Now I've done my part of this soundtrack for the new drama, now it's up to Joe to fit it into the video. Lea is working on some sign that's going to say: Eden Safaris A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity. Then it changes to: Eden Safaris A Shared Opportunity. Take a moment to think about this and hope that this encourage you. And....Take care of Mother Earth will you?

That's all folks!

Happy New Year, wishes the staff at Act 4

A little girl, a move & the last assembly

Today we had our last Christmas assembly and it went soo great. It feels kind of sad that it was our last this year, but we're fully loaded with work with the new assembly and don't have the time to mourn about it. Just breath and keep up the good work!

Behind the scenes info:

I'm working on the music and soundtrack for the new assembly. The song is going to have Sam as the main voice and myself on the choir. Sounds great!

The soundtrack for the new drama is going to be awesome! I don't want to give out to much but I can say that it has a great jingle in it that I've created with help from the library of Logic. Love Logic!

Now it's strange with no Sam in the office. Yesterday was the day he officially had moved. The day that they got the keys to the new house. Last weekend, we, the three volunteers, helped the family to pack stuff into a van and taking care of kids. It was fun but sad. Little cute Rosie slept in my arms and I felt like, I don't know. It's just crazy that a little girl like that can touch your heart<3 like that! Now I need to work on the music again. Have a nice day!

Peace out!

Coffee is nice and hot

Here I'm sitting, shivering in the office. It's cold inside, but I'm also cold because of the radiator is next to me. That doesn't make sense, you think. But I'll tell you, it gives me a hope of a warm wonderful atmosphere, but it's an illusion, because when I turn towards my desk instead, I start to freeze even more than before. The cold is also coming from within me. I mean, I know I slept last night, but still I have this feeling that I just got up and there's nothing I'd rather do than go back to bed. But! There's something wonderful that can cure that. A warm dark fluid that makes you feel alert and excited at the same time... It's Coffee!

Now let me tell you something else.

This morning we had an assembly in a school in Essedon. The kids weren't as loud as kids in other schools, but I could see it, I could see that they were enjoying it. It feels great when the smallest kids are like watching every move you make, and look at you with that big excited face. It's just a pleasent feeling spreading inside of me and then I really know how it feels to be warm inside.

Day out in London

Yesterday Sam took us out on a nice day in London. We met up with him after the morning assembly in London and headed for one of the buildings of University of London. We went to a lunch session about Storytelling and Theatre. It was nice, I thought, even though it was a lot of english words and terms from the academic world I couldn't understand, I succeded to get the point. I think.

After the session we had a race. Which team were going to get to Covent Garden, the piazza, first. Lea and Joe, that took the tube, or me and Sam that walked?! Think about it.

At the piazza we went looking for street performances. We studied them carefully and thought about why some people are just embarassing while some just are wonderful and you really don't want to walk away from them. What is it that makes a good performance good?! Why did I feel uncomfortable when nobody wanted to stop for that guy, which made me stay longer in pity and encouragement?! These were some of the thoughts that popped up while we're observing the performers.

The rest of the afternoon: We went looking for a play and couldn't find a cheap one so we gave that up. Instead we went to the National Portrait Gallery and met up with Sam's sister, their cousin and his friend. So...it was a little bit of a Sam's family reunion... haha.. but it's was nice! We went to nando's and ate some spicy portuguese food. Really nice!

Everybody went their way, and left were the three volunteers. We went to Nero, the coffeshop, had a coffe (at least me, the others had hot chocolate) and talked about the future. Now I'm really inspired to consider my opportunities.

And yeah! Me and Sam were the winning couple in the contest the tube vs. walking. Oh yeah!!!

Additionaly I just want to tell you that we now have a youtube account and here's the link: ActFourCharity

Love, Linnea

A quiet day at work

Today has been a quiet day at the office, no assemblies and no Sam, less phonecalls, less people in the office and a actually a great deal of concentration.

I need a break so that's why I'm writing now....

I runned into some problems on the website and are really low on sugar, or as I usually say: chocolate. This means if the webpage doesn't in some peculiar way fixes itself or me having myself doing somthing else, I'll going to explode of frustration.

Let me write about the others instead!

Lea has finally got her money on her phone that the mobile company told her were gonna pop up into her mobile. Her courage was on top and she finally called them. The mystery about her missing money is now solved. And on the other hand she is now finished with the database that she's been working with the last two months, yey! :D

This day is a victory for Lea!

Finally, Joe's been working on the promotion video for Starcitizen and he's almost there. He's been working hard, and I helped him recording Sam for the voiceover.

Now I'm feeling better! So... have a nice day!

Linnea

I'm putting up a picture too, this is us with Abraham, taken the other week. Aren't we a cute team!?