It's been an interesting week here in Toronto! I've started my Summer internship at Salt and Light, we've started our weekly Associate "Lecture series" at the House, and with the arrival of Jose last Monday, all the Associates that will be here for the Summer are in Toronto... we're not all in the same house yet, because Mario is still living at the High School House till the end of June, but it's nice to be connecting with people again!
I've quickly found that when living in community, it is sometimes a struggle to adapt to different habits of your housemates. Everybody does things a different way, and it can sometimes be frustrating. I guess that's one of the things that you learn how to deal with, so that you can learn to live together as a successful community. I'll learn how to do this successfully in time, I imagine, but it's something that is taking some getting used to, more than any other aspect of being here in Canada. I guess it has more to do with differences in personality than anything else, but I need to figure out to overcome that, so that I can survive living in Community.
Things are going well at Salt and Light. Still getting the hang of just what it is I'm supposed to be doing, but It's neat to see how much goes into not only keeping the network on the air (fundraising, etc.) but also to creating the programming, and getting it from the studio to the airwaves, not only through in-house production, but through recording other Catholic TV feeds, and things like that. We did have a bit of an interesting experience on Friday, when the power went out around lunchtime. (insert cheesy joke about the lights being out at Salt and Light here). With one lone extension cord run from a part of the building that has power, we got the master controls back up so that we could continue broadcasting, but it definitely made for an interesting afternoon!
Well, hopefully we'll be going up to Owen Sound this weekend, so if we do, I'll be sure to take lots of pictures! Take care, and God Bless!
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