My blog is not meant to be the blog that updates you on my life. It's meant to be the place that I write down my random thoughts on the world. I feel though that since I recently had a life-changing move to Boston I should update you on what I'm doing. I got to Boston about three weeks ago. I live in Jamaica Plain, which is called JP by the locals. It's a neighborhood of Boston. Our house is huge! There are 5 bedrooms and 3 floors. I'm living with 5 other girls. We are all volunteering for the year at different jobs. I'm working at Sojourner House in Roxbury (another neighborhood of Boston) as the Permanent Housing Coordinator. Sojourner House is a homeless family shelter, and they recently built affordable rental units and affordable home ownership condos. I get to work with the people living there. It's a lot of work and a little overwhelming, but it's going to be a great job. So far, I haven't really done much with the tenants because my boss is really busy, but we're having a tenants meeting on the 25th and I will get to meet all the tenants. So excited!
My housemates are Hilary (working at the Women's Lunch Place. A place where women can come during the day to eat and wash their clothes. Most of them are homeless), Caseye (working at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church after school program), Heather (working at Casserly House, which during the day has English classes for recent immigrants to the country, and has an after school program as well), Jen (working at North Cambridge Catholic High School, it's a Cristo Rey school so all the kids work at Corporations one day a week) and Kathleen (also working at Sojourner House, but she is working with the Children's program).
It's been a whirlwind since we got here. We had a tour of the city and visited all of our sites. We then started our jobs and have been living in community with each other. We make a point of eating dinner together and we have little money. To be in solidarity with the people that we are volunteering for. We get a personal stipend of $85 dollars a month, and then we each get $75 for food and money to pay rent and all our other bills.
This weekend there is a fundraiser for JVC at Boston College High School for the New England area. I'm excited to meet people that support us and want to see us succeed. Also 2 weeks ago, we went to a bar in JP to watch Obama's acceptance speech. I was interviewed by a newscaster because there were so many people there, and the video is posted on the Internet! So exciting! Mike Fitz, who is a former JV took us to the event and he was interviewed as well. I'm posting the video so you can see my lack of interview skills. Note to self: work on not being so fidgety. That's all I have for the update. Stayed tuned for more of my random thoughts.
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/Obama-supporters-gather-to-watch-a-milestone-in-American/1219983116.html
The book this time is: The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
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