Great news!

I'm so excited for Claire right now - she had signed up to Camp America to be a camp counsellor over the summer, and today she got news that she's been placed!  Just this morning she was wondering if she'd ever hear from them, and was thinking about pulling out because she's worried we won't be able to come up with all the money for the trip, and then this afternoon she got a phone call out of the blue, telling her a camp in New York state wanted her as a photographer. How fab is that?!?  It turns out it's a "secular camp based on Jewish principles". Interesting. Claire did say she'd be happy to go to a religious camp, thinking a Christian one, but I think this would be a great learning experience for her. Not to mention travelling half way across the world and spending 2 months in another country. 

Camp America is highly regarded and well known, so I'm happy for her to go with them. The youngsters have to pay registration fees, police check fees, visa and other travel costs, but they get paid for their time over there.  Now I'm thinking about how we can sponsor her to raise the £500 or so she still has to find. If anyone has any bright ideas, then I'm all ears.  She is going to go to the bank on Friday to see if she can get a loan, but I'm not sure if that will work as she only has a lowly paid part time job at the moment, while she tries to build her portfolio and start her photography business. She has started to create some goodies to sell on etsy, and there's always ebay... We'll manage somehow!

No pictures today, because it was a day of hanging around to see the Rheumatologist, have xrays, and then rush back to work to take care of all the Execs who are in town for meetings. Shame, because the sun was shining nicely between the rain showers and I would much rather have been out and about with the camera!  The Rheumatologist (a new one, a Professor) is doubting my diagnosis because I have symptoms of two types of arthritis and he's inclined to think it's one sort, but I'm being treated for the other... I won't bore you with the details, but I had the delightful opportunity (!) to bare my a** cheek in front of two med students to get a rather painful steroid shot, which I'm hoping will give me the same kind of relief I got two years ago. I must say, so far it feels promising.

Anyhoo, now I'm chilling with a cuppa and Debussy on Classic FM - they're playing the whole shebang tonight, and it was La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (the girl with the flaxen hair) a minute ago, which sooooo reminds me of my mum and grandma. One of my all-time faves.  

I hope you are all happy and healthy where you are. Feel free to comment - I know people drop by thanks to my visitor counter, but everyone seems mighty shy if you ask me.  Night night!  

Comments

[anam]

awesome news.

Could she not do some sort of photoshoot event - say do 10 photos for 20quid or something... a friend of our organised something similar in a local park and used facebook/blog/flyers to organise it - she basically gave people - families - a 15 minute slot and so did 4 shoots an hour - and she ended up with about 4 hours worth. all it cost her was time and the 6x4 prints.

get a paypal donation box set up :)