10th anniversary of Child Protection

Yesterday and today see the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Arad Child Protection. We have spent most of today at the Primaria (Town Hall) listening to speeches from various parties, most interesting of which were those of young people formerly in Care who have moved on in life and are doing well, for example a young man who is now an actor and two young women, one with physical disabilities who are now social workers. Another week has gone by and we haven't stopped but between a three day conference and two days of 10th anniversary celebrations we have got none of our "normal" work done! On Saturday I help run an English club at a high school, on Sunday 8 visitors arrive from the UK and we have beds and bed linen to sort out before then as well as trying to find a bit of time for family over the weekend. Johanna, Philip and Kenny are all coming home this evening and we try to spend either Friday or Saturday evening all together watching a film and eating popcorn and chocolate! At the moment it's not looking as though we'll manage time for that this weekend but we'll see ...