Most of our new Summer Volunteers have now arrived, from the States, Italy, Latvia, England, Denmark, Holland and even Brazil. Welcome to them! We have a mentor programme where experienced community members help a new arrival to find their feet. This can mean showing them where to wash their clothes or buy a toothbrush, showing them around, and also helping them to understand how our community works and the communication systems within it.
The recruitment process and my predecessors in the job have brought a varied but excellent bunch of people here. Some have been here before, many have not. I look forward to getting to know all of them.
We have another visitor coming tonight, Martin Ledant, who wrote the previous post. He is on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, and had interrupted it previously to come here, after bumping into our wonderful skateboarding cook, Phillip, in Limoges. He said Phillip's beard and skateboard had magnetised him. Not the typical recruitment process, but it brought Martin here, and he was a valuable and inquisitive member of the community.
Anyway, he spent some days in Belgium with his family, and is now resuming his pilgrimage. His plan is to walk here from Limoges today as a pilgrim once more, and seek shelter with us. We will accomodate him in the shrineroom. Hopefully he will arrive before dinner, as it is a special one.
It took a while for me to catch on to the fact that you had posted a link amongst your last blog's comments. Glad things are going well :)
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